"Sad": LLMs have collapsed the distance between intelligence and rent seeking to zero
jwt0625 · x · 2026-11-01
jwt0625 laments that LLMs have collapsed the distance between intelligence and rent seeking to zero — a pointed critique implying much of the AI startup wave is arbitrage or rent collection dressed up as intelligence.
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