Erik Brynjolfsson

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201 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 17 Jul

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Hard Fork · The A.I. Trade Secrets War + Economists Say ‘We Must Act Now’ + HatGPT · 17 Jul 2026 podcast

And we saw basically the same pattern.

And people said, oh, it's a blip.

It's due to interest rates or whatever.

It's just grown over time.

You can go to the Canaries, you can go to the dashboard, AI economic indicators at Stanford.

And what you'll see is that these trends have just been continuing to grow over time.

It's not something that's just due to COVID or something else.

Well, I love Noah.

He's super smart.

He's a friend of mine.

We hang out in the Bay Area from time to time.

I'm so glad he engaged with the letter, and I'm also glad that not everybody just reflexively agreed with it.

I think we had just the right amount of frish in there, a few people disagreeing just to make it interesting.

It would have been boring if everybody just said, yeah, yeah, this is obvious.

That said, Noah's wrong about this, you know.

We have lots of examples in history of technology being directed in different ways.

One of the ideas behind carbon taxes is that you want to do that, and there's research that shows that countries that impose more taxes, engine technology evolved in different ways.

For computers specifically, there's long been two strains.

Alan Turing talked about the Turing test, imitating, replacing humans.

There's another stream, Doug Engelbart and others, who talked about –

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