Why AGI Isn’t as Important as ACI
May 6, 2025
Do You Remember the 4-Hour Workweek?
The alluring promise that if you never answer emails again and sell supplements from a landing page you can have money come into your bank account while you sip Mai Tais on a beach somewhere?
This book’s popularity and success 20 years ago tells us everything we need to know about the coming AI wave.
Artificial General Intelligence (or AGI) is meaningless, Artificial *Capable* Intelligence is everything: AI that can print investors money on demand.
Since as long as there’s been digital anything, people have been trying to fill their bank accounts while doing as little as humanly possible—I dare say it’s the American Dream! After all, who wouldn’t want to retire by the age of 23!?
Sure, some of us enjoy meaningful work, but the vast majority of us just want to lounge on a beach and never have to worry about money ever again.
Well, AI is nothing more than the ultimate money machine—the logical evolution of the last several decades of Blitzscaling wisdom.
Finally, a system that prints money for you without anyone having to do anything.
Who cares how it works, why it works, or what it does, as long as the bank account inputs exceed the cost outputs.
If efficiency is simply removing any unnecessary step—like checking emails—between doing nothing and profiting, then Tim Ferriss was off by over 3 hours!
Side note: Buy my new book, The 15-Minute Workweek.
The alluring promise that if you never answer emails again and sell supplements from a landing page you can have money come into your bank account while you sip Mai Tais on a beach somewhere?
This book’s popularity and success 20 years ago tells us everything we need to know about the coming AI wave.
Artificial General Intelligence (or AGI) is meaningless, Artificial *Capable* Intelligence is everything: AI that can print investors money on demand.
Since as long as there’s been digital anything, people have been trying to fill their bank accounts while doing as little as humanly possible—I dare say it’s the American Dream! After all, who wouldn’t want to retire by the age of 23!?
Sure, some of us enjoy meaningful work, but the vast majority of us just want to lounge on a beach and never have to worry about money ever again.
Well, AI is nothing more than the ultimate money machine—the logical evolution of the last several decades of Blitzscaling wisdom.
Finally, a system that prints money for you without anyone having to do anything.
Who cares how it works, why it works, or what it does, as long as the bank account inputs exceed the cost outputs.
If efficiency is simply removing any unnecessary step—like checking emails—between doing nothing and profiting, then Tim Ferriss was off by over 3 hours!
Side note: Buy my new book, The 15-Minute Workweek.