@mmasnick@hardindr@molly0xfff I thought you agreed that the bounds of distributor liability were determined by the law (which I am advocating changing) and NOT the 1st Amendment. Are you know saying this is part of the constitution?
@BrentInMasto@JamesGleick I'll also add that our period of most rapid productivity growth was 1947-73, which was a period of rapid real wage growth and declining inequality.
@JamesGleick Sorry, Ted Chiang has it completely wrong. It would be wonderful if AI led to a huge surge in productivity -- we need not worry about inflation for many decades -- but little reason to believe that will be the case. But,l this is the sort of stuff that excites New Yorker readers even if it has no basis in reality.
@BrentInMasto@JamesGleick sure, capitalists ALWAYS want to pay their workers as little as possible. That is a given. The question is whether AI is some huge qualitative breakthrough, which will hugely increase productivity growth. I have been hearing this claim literally for decades, and we have not seen it yet. Maybe the techno-optimists will be right this time, but they have a hell of a track record of being wrong.