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Comment by Ben (Berlin) (Whitepaw) on Applying traditional economic thinking to AGI: a trilemma · 2025-01-22T19:58:14.909Z · LW · GW

(…Assuming free markets, and rule of law, and AGI not taking over and wiping out humanity, and so on. I think those are highly dubious assumptions, but let’s not get into that here!)


Assuming all is correct, isn't the answer therefore: "at least one of these assumptions must be false"?

(Personally I have long suspected that free markets are a gross oversimplification, but I'm not an economist; and even if I was, with those three options I've got reason to wish for that specific option)

Comment by Ben (Berlin) (Whitepaw) on My hour of memoryless lucidity · 2024-05-12T10:46:15.080Z · LW · GW

I wish I'd thought of that with my mother's dementia; I noticed a similar effect on the scale of minutes (hers was already quite severe by the time of the diagnosis), but I didn't plan anything and I didn't take enough notes at the time, so all I have for this is the anecdote.