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As seen in: Wiley Online Library, Frontiers, Gut Journal, SAGE Publishing, Taylor & Francis Online, The Tech (MIT), LessWrong (30+ Karma)
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Comparative advantage & AI — LessWrong

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By Simon Lermen, Matthew Barnett, J Bostock
| LessWrong (30+ Karma)
Also on my substack I was recently saddened to see that Seb Krier – who's a lead on the Google DeepMind governance team – created a simple website apparently endorsing the idea that Ricardian comparative advantage will provide humans with jobs in the time of ASI. The argument that comparative advantage means advanced AI is automatically safe is pretty old and has been addressed multiple times.
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Contra Collier on IABIED — LessWrong

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By Max Harms, William Kiely, Matthew Barnett
| LessWrong (30+ Karma)
Clara Collier recently reviewed If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies in Asterisk Magazine. I’ve been a reader of Asterisk since the beginning and had high hopes for her review. And perhaps it was those high hopes that led me to find the review to be disappointing. Collier says “details matter,” and I absolutely agree.
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Most AI value will come from broad automation, not from R&D — LessWrong

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By Matthew Barnett
| lesswrong.com
This is a linkpost to an article by Ege Erdil and I that we wrote to explain an important perspective that we share regarding AI automation. I'll quote the introduction: A popular view about the future impact of AI on the economy is that it will be primarily mediated through AI automation of R&D.
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