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Maybe it would only last a few years. But once we can convert capital directly into labour in a manner that scales, we will get insane amounts of economic growt

• pygy_ 10y ago
  Indeed, but it remains to be seen if such growth would benefit the idling meat bags left unemployed.
• ffwd 10y ago
  I understand what you're saying but I think it's bad to use the term 'economic' growth. There would be potential productivity growth but not necessarily economic growth, since the economy is a human endeavour. AIs don't need money and won't contribute to money, and the machines would only be 'allowed' to produce what the customers would be able to buy (so essentially the current economy), unless they would produce lots of extra stuff just for the hell of it. To have all that growth I think you'd need to decouple the machines from the economy but then distributing natural resources would be a problem, and then you come back to central planning and that's a whole other can of worms.