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

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Is Exponential Growth Generally Applying?

The danger is that we may make some mistakes in the meantime using our old kind of caveman intuitions about how the world works. The way humans learn, the way organizations change, the way our whole institutions adapt and evolve, those don't improve at exponential basis. And that leads to a mismatch oftentimes between these exponentially improving technologies or, let's say, changing technologies because some of them are exponentially more dangerous.

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