My idea was, maybe the AI company is willing to sell you 1 unit of AI labor at human-competitive price, but if you order 1000 units they’ll ask for a higher price per unit, because they need to build more datacenters or something. In this case replacement of humans will be gradual even if all humans are equally productive. And another possibility is that humans aren’t all equally productive, so AI will first get good enough to replace the worst worker, then the second worst and so on. From these two reasons I get the possibility that by the time lots of people get replaced, the difference in productivity between AI and the average person replaced so far won’t be epsilon. It won’t be the full salary either, but maybe something substantial. Anyway that was it.
My idea was, maybe the AI company is willing to sell you 1 unit of AI labor at human-competitive price, but if you order 1000 units they’ll ask for a higher price per unit, because they need to build more datacenters or something. In this case replacement of humans will be gradual even if all humans are equally productive. And another possibility is that humans aren’t all equally productive, so AI will first get good enough to replace the worst worker, then the second worst and so on. From these two reasons I get the possibility that by the time lots of people get replaced, the difference in productivity between AI and the average person replaced so far won’t be epsilon. It won’t be the full salary either, but maybe something substantial. Anyway that was it.