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I hassled @tylercowen about why he doesn't expect explosive economic growth from AGI. How could we possibly add 100 billion extra workers and only get 0.5% more growth?
Also featuring Stalin's library, EU decels, and how Churchill was an underachiever.
Hilarious and provocative throughout.__... See more
Dwarkesh Patelx.com
John von Neumann, neo-Luddite:
(von Neumann was, of course, one of the arch-technologists of all human history - contributing to the creation of everything from the digital computer to the hydrogen bomb to weather forecasting...) https://t.co/vwTqHNamjo
And they are instantiated as a distributed processing system on human beings. They don’t particularly care about human beings. Their motives are inscrutable, to the extent that they have any, except that they’d like to get bigger. They’ve run on people. They’re implemented on people. But they are not people. They are not persons in any meaningful s
... See moreW. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
Humans were always far better at inventing tools than using them wisely.