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Alex Imas

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

So what does that mean?

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

It means even though we're eating just as much as we were before, because the price has come down so much, they are now tiny shares of the GDP, right?

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

What is made up the larger part of the GDP?

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

It's services, right?

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

These are tasks that haven't been automated yet.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

So the question is, the number one question of economics in the age of advanced AI is what becomes scarce, right?

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

Everybody's talking about abundance.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

We're going to have abundance.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

Sure, we're going to have abundance of some things, but some things are going to remain scarce.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

So if you answer that question, what's going to be scarce, a lot of the other answers pop out of it.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

Yeah.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

So health is going to be one of those things.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

But the thing to keep in mind is that people are going to be richer.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

Right.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

Theoretically.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

Theoretically.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

Theoretically.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

I would say not that confident.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

There's several scenarios out there.

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Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

And the thing that I feel like a lot of economists and just people in general I think aren't talking enough about is speed.