Noah Smith
speaker
437 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 24 Jul
Noah Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Call things what they are.
Use terminology to mean specific useful things.
Yeah.
I mean, obviously, AI is the big reason for optimism.
Productivity growth, we're already starting to see some productivity growth that's probably from AI, we're not sure, without apparent job loss.
All these people thought AI was a job destroyer and a human remover.
And so far, it's turning out not to be that.
Like, you know, there's a few occupations that are under stress and under pressure from AI, but that's true of any technology.
That was true of machine tools.
That was true of anything that improved our prosperity in the past that now we're not worried about.
It's true of databases and computers.
It was true of the internet.
It's true of everything.
And so far, like our job markets, you know, there's less hiring and less firing.
How corporations hire and fire people is going to change.
I think we'll go more toward a Japanese system where we have like salarymen doing generalist jobs for companies and like, you know, instead of highly specialized things and a whole lot more independent entrepreneurs.
We're seeing a lot more independent people start small businesses.
There's a positive trend.
We're just seeing a massive surge in dynamism, a surge in business formation.
Individuals can start businesses more easily than ever before.
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