
The end of economists
The David McWilliams Podcast
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The Impact of the Printing Press on the World
The price of books between 1450 and 1500 fell by two thirds, right? They dropped by two and a half percent every year from 1460 to 1600. And fascinatingly, it caused a revolutionary change in what people studied. So this level of intelligence is much higher than our bots. This is a, say, to synthesize ideas. It's able to contextualize ideas. If you imagine, so for example, that the reason we have paragraphs in writing is because we have assumed that this is the way people absorb information. You absorb a paragraph, you go, okay, I've got that. Now we start again. These pieces of software have figured all this out. And it
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