What Darwin would actually do on MondayWhat Darwin would actually do on Monday
Not a framework. A specific instruction, in his voice:
Speed up the selection cycle, and move all protection from the firm to the human. Concretely: kill every regulation whose function is to slow the emergence of new entrants — occupational licensing that protects incumbent professions from AI-augmented competitors, compute and model-registration thresholds that ossify the current frontier, liability rules that make experimentation the privilege of the three largest labs. Replace incumbent protection with adaptation infrastructure aimed at people, never companies: wage insurance that pays the human while the niche closes, fully portable healthcare and retraining credits that follow the worker and not the employer, and public funding for the cheapest, fastest possible experimentation — open compute access, regulatory sandboxes, low fixed cost to starting a new economic "species."
Let the Kodaks die on schedule. Catch every human who falls out of one, and aim them at the next niche before it closes. That is not cruelty and it is not laissez-faire. It is the breeder's hand: you cannot stop selection, so you run it faster, in the direction you choose, and you make damn sure your population has enough protected variation to supply the next adapted form.
The environment is not asking permission. It never has. The only question Darwin would put to America is the one he spent his life answering for everything else that lives: fast enough?
Not a framework. A specific instruction, in his voice:
Speed up the selection cycle, and move all protection from the firm to the human. Concretely: kill every regulation whose function is to slow the emergence of new entrants — occupational licensing that protects incumbent professions from AI-augmented competitors, compute and model-registration thresholds that ossify the current frontier, liability rules that make experimentation the privilege of the three largest labs. Replace incumbent protection with adaptation infrastructure aimed at people, never companies: wage insurance that pays the human while the niche closes, fully portable healthcare and retraining credits that follow the worker and not the employer, and public funding for the cheapest, fastest possible experimentation — open compute access, regulatory sandboxes, low fixed cost to starting a new economic "species."
Let the Kodaks die on schedule. Catch every human who falls out of one, and aim them at the next niche before it closes. That is not cruelty and it is not laissez-faire. It is the breeder's hand: you cannot stop selection, so you run it faster, in the direction you choose, and you make damn sure your population has enough protected variation to supply the next adapted form.
The environment is not asking permission. It never has. The only question Darwin would put to America is the one he spent his life answering for everything else that lives: fast enough?