Jasmine Sun

And maybe the year after that, it will be able to replace a senior engineer.

And if that continues, then...

AI will then we will no longer need human engineers to make more software.

Right.

And so the argument that people like Daria would make here is that AI breaks the necessary tie between humans and labor.

And that's the thing that people like Marc Andreessen are failing to consider.

That would be me making the steel man for Dario's case.

Yeah, so this is the argument that like Alexia Moss, the economist has made, right?

Is like, what will become scarce?

Like, oh, relational goods, like you said, therapists, you know, personal trainers will become scarce.

Party hosts, I think that there'll be a lot of party hosts after AGI, event planners, whatever it is.

And to be clear, I personally am like quite sympathetic to this argument.

But the argument that Daria would make here, or when I'm feeling pessimistic, the argument that I would make here is, actually, AIs are really good at emotional and relational labor too.

And even a lot of wealthy people choose that stuff.

So before, maybe if you wanted to be entertained, you might have to go see a live play.

You'd have to go see live theater and you need like 50 people to like make this production of live theater.

Now you have like Netflix and TikTok and increasingly in the future, we're going to have Netflix and TikTok with like AI avatars and AI storylines.

You just need like way less humans to produce the same entertainment.

And like,

Even people who are really rich sometimes prefer to watch Netflix and TikTok versus go to the theater, even though they can also afford to go to the theater.