Alex Imas and Phil Trammell – What remains scarce after AGI?

·Dwarkesh Patel··

Economics of AGI episode w Alex Imas and Phil Trammell.There’s a bunch of important questions about how we deal with AI that only economics can answer.What is the optimal way to tax and redistribute the wealth that will be generated? How should countries not in the AI supply chain index into the gains? Is there any world where inequality doesn’t explode?It might seem like these questions have obvious answers, but the first thing economics teaches you is that your intuitions can often be entirely...

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