David Duvenaud

And this kind of makes you pretty relaxed in terms of like, whatever the government does, whatever goes on with the economy, probably I'm going to be able to slot in somewhere.

And even if I somehow like lose all my money, be able to rebuild from scratch.

Once you stop being able to trade your labor, then basically whatever capital that you have is your one asset.

And if you ever lose it, it's hard to see how you recover.

Of course, the other thing going on right now is also we have redistribution of wealth through the government.

And so right now, for a lot of people, it is sort of life or death already.

And then the stakes will just become even higher for how much redistribution is happening.

And if our control over the government becomes less, we should expect that effect to also become less.

Sure.

So in the short run, this probably looks really good for the average human in the sense of the cost of almost every service going way down, services just getting way better, and the cost of almost every good also probably going way down.

And there might be actually a long period where things are kind of okay in the sense that humans are sort of disempowered, but there's not really much pressure to disempower them more.

We're all just sort of enjoying our like luxury apartments or something like that while the machine economy is just growing and growing.

And then I think this sort of like scary phase comes later on when there's been like enough doublings that some basic resource is starting to become scarce again.

So maybe it's like land, maybe it's power.

It's not like I don't really have strong opinions on what exactly it is.

But the idea is that eventually we do hit some sort of like Malthusian-ish limit and we have to actually start competing with the machines for some basic resource.

Of course, along the way, I think there might be like on a faster scale, this sort of like Malthusian competition for political power might be lost by humans.

But like, let's just not worry about that for now.

Yeah, exactly.

So the scenario I have in mind is that I have my maybe like one acre of land or my like big luxury apartment with me and my family.