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@testingham If one reads the "economics of transformative AI" paper carefully with a focus on the explicated assumptions and the ones not even mentioned, it's a roadmap as well as indication how weird that world would be. It's very helpful in that!
10:30 AM · Jul 14, 2026When economists talk about "post-AGI futures" they mean abundance: 10X growth. When AI people talk about "post-AGI futures" they mean omnipotence: growth until physical limits are hit. AI people will ask the economists: if AI gets you a century's technological progress in a decade, why will it stop there? Additionally, from the perspective of omnipotence, the economists considerations all start to seem *provincial*. Considerations about redistribution, inequality, democracy, power concentration, dignity, meaning. (This observation comes from me trying to reconcile post-AGI conversations at Lighthaven, and post-AGI conversations at Asilomar)
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