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Honestly the long-term consequences of Baumol's disease scare me more than some AI driven job disruption dystopia. If we want to continue on the path of increa
by grumpy-de-sre 1y ago
Honestly the long-term consequences of Baumol's disease scare me more than some AI driven job disruption dystopia.
If we want to continue on the path of increased human development we desperately need to lift the productivity of a whole bunch of labor intensive sectors.
We're going to need to seriously think about how to redistribute the gains, but that's an issue regardless of AI (things like effective tax policy).
- mdaniel 1y agoI didn't recognize that expression, so in case others were in the same boat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect