David McWilliams
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8 series
first heard Jan 2026
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Henry Farrell then coined the phrase the Adamuglu Wars.
Arguing and this is the interesting thing, it's Farrell who argued the thing and kind of he said the whole thing, whole spot.
Is really a proxy war over AI regulation.
And this is what I think is interesting.
So
that then.
Because
There is in academic circles
In political circles, in the tech world
And as a result of that, in the economic world, a brewing culture war over AI.
So
Adam Muglu, the Nobel Prize winner, first of all says that AI is complete hype.
It'll probably only, in his view,
Contributed a less than one percent to total factor productivity over the next decade.
Wow.
Which is nothing in comparison to Wall Street and the tech bros who are talking about transforming the world.
Yeah.
And his view is that only about 5% of tasks will be profitably automated near-term by AI.
And he rates about 80% of all the current AI commentary as what he calls brainless.
More speculative fiction than serious analysis.
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