From: Samantha Atkins (sjatkins@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Apr 26 2008 - 02:14:12 MDT
Matt Mahoney wrote:
> --- Nick Tarleton <nickptar@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>> Global economic output over the next 30 years, at constant growth,
>> will be $4.6 quadrillion (my calculation from CIA World Factbook
>> numbers). That nearly a quarter of the world economy will be invested
>> in AGI over that time is hideously implausible.
>>
>
> If AGI enables machines to do all the work that humans would otherwise be paid
> to do, then how much would it be worth?
>
Nothing (or 42) as monetary valuation in its former terms would
disappear along with most existential scarcity.
- samantha
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