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#141 – Erik Brynjolfsson: Economics of AI, Social Networks, and Technology

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Are We on the Good Side of the Great Filter?

There are those who think that one of the reasons we haven't been contacted by other civilizations, right, is that once you get to a certain level of complexity and technology, there's just too many ways to go wrong. The great filter. If there is literally no intelligent life out there in the universe, or at least in our galaxy, that means that we've passed at least one of the great filters  that we survived. And so now maybe we're on the good side of the great filter.

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