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Tyler Cowen

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Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Tyler Cowen on how AI will reorder economies, schools, and spirituality

Minimal.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Tyler Cowen on how AI will reorder economies, schools, and spirituality

Like it'll tell you more if you want it to.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Tyler Cowen on how AI will reorder economies, schools, and spirituality

I visited the Amish multiple times.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Tyler Cowen on how AI will reorder economies, schools, and spirituality

I'm not tempted.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Tyler Cowen on how AI will reorder economies, schools, and spirituality

I want to live to 97 and whatever else.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Tyler Cowen on how AI will reorder economies, schools, and spirituality

I don't think many people will do this.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Tyler Cowen on how AI will reorder economies, schools, and spirituality

I think it will be like the Amish where yes, some people do it, but they will be regarded as highly unusual outliers.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Tyler Cowen on how AI will reorder economies, schools, and spirituality

Understood, right?

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Tyler Cowen on how AI will reorder economies, schools, and spirituality

Oh, I agree.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Tyler Cowen on how AI will reorder economies, schools, and spirituality

And I think we do see that quite a bit, as you mentioned.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Tyler Cowen on how AI will reorder economies, schools, and spirituality

But I think it will be a barbell solution where maybe one month a year you're off in the Thai jungle trekking, and most of the rest of the time you're immersed in your AIs rather than the Amish.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Tyler Cowen on how AI will reorder economies, schools, and spirituality

Or like Christian scientists, they refuse a lot of health care, dwindling in number.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Tyler Cowen on how AI will reorder economies, schools, and spirituality

A lot of the Amish become Mennonites, a lot of Mennonites die.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Tyler Cowen on how AI will reorder economies, schools, and spirituality

you know, marry Christians and are not that Mennonite anymore.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Tyler Cowen on how AI will reorder economies, schools, and spirituality

So that's what I expect.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Tyler Cowen on how AI will reorder economies, schools, and spirituality

The gains are too large.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Tyler Cowen on how AI will reorder economies, schools, and spirituality

I think we learned from history that no one is ready for a fundamental change.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Tyler Cowen on how AI will reorder economies, schools, and spirituality

Britain had an industrial revolution.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Tyler Cowen on how AI will reorder economies, schools, and spirituality

Different things were done with the poor laws, trade unions.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Tyler Cowen on how AI will reorder economies, schools, and spirituality

Arguably, those were a good idea, but they really didn't matter that much