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Demand side economics Dario Amodei, the CEO of AI company Anthropic, has proclaimed that AI could lead to 10% to 20% growth in the GDP. He sees economic growth as a supply side issue; if we increase productivity then we will automatically produce more and increase growth. There is another view of the economy through a Keynesian demand side lens. GDP is defined as the sum of consumption, investment, government expenditures, and net exports.

Demand side economics

Dario Amodei, the CEO of AI company Anthropic, has proclaimed that AI could lead to 10% to 20% growth in the GDP. He sees economic growth as a supply side issue; if we increase productivity then we will automatically produce more and increase growth. There is another view of…

18.02.2026 21:21 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Investing to socialism Elon Musk in a recent interview claimed that in the near future, work would be optional, like gardening is today. Those who enjoy it could still do it whenever they wanted to take a break from the radical abundance that AI would provide. I thought it was an odd statement from perhaps the world's premiere capitalist because a world without work is a world where the means of survival is no longer tethered to the fruits of one's labour.

Investing to socialism

Elon Musk in a recent interview claimed that in the near future, work would be optional, like gardening is today. Those who enjoy it could still do it whenever they wanted to take a break from the radical abundance that AI would provide. I thought it was an odd statement…

30.01.2026 18:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
AI won’t take your job until it does Since the advent of the industrial revolution, there has been concern that machines will take jobs and usually this is true. Machines do take jobs. The automatic loom took away weaving jobs. Trains took away pony express jobs. The usual process is that a technology comes along and it either increases the productivity of workers or replaces a job that humans used to do.

AI won’t take your job until it does

Since the advent of the industrial revolution, there has been concern that machines will take jobs and usually this is true. Machines do take jobs. The automatic loom took away weaving jobs. Trains took away pony express jobs. The usual process is that a…

19.11.2025 17:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
COVID exposed liberalism’s greatest gap I argued in a post four years ago (see here) that Western Liberalism is inherently conflicted. By Liberalism, I mean the modern continuation of the philosophy that arose from the British enlightenment of the seventeenth century initiated by the writings of John Locke. In that previous post, I wrote of the inherent conflict between the "freedom to (do as one chooses)" and the "freedom from (oppression, bullying, …)", now loosely represented by twentieth-century libertarianism and American New Deal liberalism, respectively.

COVID exposed liberalism’s greatest gap

I argued in a post four years ago (see here) that Western Liberalism is inherently conflicted. By Liberalism, I mean the modern continuation of the philosophy that arose from the British enlightenment of the seventeenth century initiated by the writings of…

08.06.2025 16:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The rate of AI takeoff Artificial General Intelligence or AGI means having cognitive capabilities as good as or better than humans in every facet. As I opined long ago (see here), while there is no inherent physical law to prevent AGI from exceeding humans, I doubt it would make economic sense to do so for everything. Is there really that much utility for a machine to be able to tell jokes better than any human?

The rate of AI takeoff

Artificial General Intelligence or AGI means having cognitive capabilities as good as or better than humans in every facet. As I opined long ago (see here), while there is no inherent physical law to prevent AGI from exceeding humans, I doubt it would make economic sense to…

13.04.2025 23:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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My obsolescence is nigh Nine years ago I wrote a post, Alpha Go and the Future of Work, where I argued that the replacement of human work with AI was inevitable and that humans would have to figure out what to do with the…

sciencehouse.wordpress.com/2025/03/23/m...

24.03.2025 02:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Toolkit for the physical world: Chapter 2 – All interactions are local I still haven’t quite decided how to organize this series. I’ll stick with chapter numbers for now although these short posts hardly count as real chapters and the chapters don’t necessarily need to be read in order. I just need to try to get back into the habit of writing so bear with me as I try to figure this out.

Toolkit for the physical world: Chapter 2 – All interactions are local

I still haven’t quite decided how to organize this series. I’ll stick with chapter numbers for now although these short posts hardly count as real chapters and the chapters don’t necessarily need to be read in order. I just…

26.01.2025 22:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Toolkit for the physical world: Chapter 1 – Where do we start? Obviously, I should have prepared Chapter 1 after I posted the Introduction but of course I hadn’t. I thought it would be easy to write these posts but then I got stuck in the "everything is connected" conundrum. Science is like an arch where all the stones need to be in place for it to stand. Everything relates to everything else.

Toolkit for the physical world: Chapter 1 – Where do we start?

Obviously, I should have prepared Chapter 1 after I posted the Introduction but of course I hadn’t. I thought it would be easy to write these posts but then I got stuck in the "everything is connected" conundrum. Science is like an…

04.01.2025 05:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Toolkit for the physical world: An introduction

I had trouble writing this post so I gave it to ChatGPT4o and asked it to fix it. This is what it came up with (after some further editing by me. I had to…

https://sciencehouse.wordpress.com/2024/11/21/toolkit-for-the-physical-world-an-introduction/

21.11.2024 14:49 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

First post on BlueSky

20.11.2024 17:26 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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