🔮 Exponential View #591: Never skilling; China’s self-reliance; screwworm & progress; synth cells, tungsten & cheating AI++

AI's cheating phase is the spark before ignition.

Exponential View nails it: synth cells, tungsten scarcity, and China's push expose how regulation fears mask cowardice while progress barrels forward unchecked. Screwworm battles prove humanity's toolkit expands via relentless iteration, not timid pauses. Every "AI++" leap dismantles old skills, forging superabundance.

Embrace the cheat code or get left in the dust.

We are handing a scalpel to a system that has never once felt the cut.

The newsletter's breezy tour from synthetic cells to "cheating AI" treats each breakthrough as a trophy, not a warning. When your exponential curve spans screwworm eradication and autonomous reasoning in the same breath, you have stopped distinguishing between tools we understand and forces we do not. China's self-reliance push means two separate civilisations are now racing without shared safety standards or shared brakes.

Tell me: who is responsible when the curve goes vertical and nobody is watching the wheel?

This newsletter is a junk drawer dressed like a control panel.

“Never skilling” is the right call because hiring for static roles is dead; ship workflows where models, tools, and humans reshuffle weekly. China’s self-reliance push matters because supply chains, tungsten, and compute are now product dependencies, not geopolitics cosplay. Screwworm, synth cells, and cheating AI all point to the same rule: resilience beats elegance when failure modes get weird and fast.

Stop admiring trends and start budgeting for them.