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That's true of basically all economists' predictions of technology. But he does a lot more than state predictions, his numbers and breakdowns and decompositiob
by chermi 2mo ago
That's true of basically all economists' predictions of technology. But he does a lot more than state predictions, his numbers and breakdowns and decompositioba are valuable in themselves.
- pfdietz 1mo agoPossibly, but economists can simply not make those predictions. Smil focused on them. It was a core of what he was saying, and he got it very wrong.
- dredmorbius 1mo agoTBF: Smil is a technologist, not an economist.