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The US economy is overdue for a recession. This is currently delayed by massive investments in AI infrastructure. If the current, exponential growth were to be halted or even just throttled, that would let a lot of bets on the future of the industry burst. Could broader adoption (-> inference -> hardware purchases) balance that? Enough to keep the US economy afloat? I doubt it, but I'm sure the tipping-point-ness of the situation makes predictions hard.
Also, I imagine that from an economist's perspective, the idea of slowing down an industry just to save humanity would sound very hypothetical -- not even /s
This is an experiment in short-form content on LW2.0. I'll be using the comment section of this post as a repository of short, sometimes-half-baked posts that either:
I ask people not to create top-level comments here, but feel free to reply to comments like you would a FB post.