Kemp

Let's say we're in a Jevons paradox world. That's a world where powerful AI, or AGI, or whatever, exists, and doesn't steal everyone's job, due to Jevons paradox. > In economics, the Jevons paradox, or Jevons effect, is the tendency for technological improvements that increase the efficiency of a resource's...

At 2024's Manifest, Robin Hanson gave a talk (in his usual sweeping polymathic style) on cultural drift - a phenomenon for which he thinks "there's going to be hell to pay", and about which he is "scared, because this is a really big fundamental problem". Watch the recording of the...