Review: Robin Hanson’s Age of Em
Robin Hanson, the closest we have today to an economist of science fiction -- he might prefer “economist of the singularity” -- has a new book out this week. Called “Age of Em: Work, Love…
Robin Hanson, the closest we have today to an economist of science fiction -- he might prefer “economist of the singularity” -- has a new book out this week. Called “Age of Em: Work, Love…
Last post I argued that there are no economic or brain-power limits to innovation. That the single factor holding back innovation is simply the policies we choose. This isn’t just speculation: we can actually look back to…
Is innovation slowing? Will it stop? A new paper by one Jonathan Huebner in the awesomely-named journal “Technological Forecasting & Social Change” argues that innovation is slowing, indeed that it’s halved in the past hundred…
The job-threatening rise of the machines is an economically illiterate meme that refuses to die. We’re actually probably in the early stages of it, a bull-market in luddism, if you will. Bastiat’s Candlemakers Petititon answered…
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