Theme

The final bottleneck is expert attention

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Solve Everything (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

Every domain that stays expensive is gated on a small number of people who understand it. Collapsing the cost of expert cognition toward the cost of electricity is the single intervention that reaches all of them at once.

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2026-03-21: The last domain assumed immune to technological deflation

2026-02-14: A framework converts messy domains into problems compute can be poured into

2026-02-14: A schedule for what gets solved and when, in three phases to 2035

2026-02-14: A blueprint argues the Intelligence Revolution targets one bottleneck

2026-02-14: Fifteen moonshots each with benchmarks, dates, guardrails and a spillover theory

2026-02-14: A distinction between measurement that records and measurement that creates

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The final bottleneck is expert attention
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KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/themes/scarce-expert-attention
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- Solve Everything — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/solve-everything
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