It would be not a problem if everyone was slowing their growth. But if e.g. the profit-maximizing autonomous corporations are not slowing their growth, and the countries which have been taken over by AIs are not slowing their growth, and the dictatorships are not slowing their growth, then yes it’s a huge problem that protectionism in human-run democracies slows growth.
Yes I think protectionist viewpoints are very naive. The industrial revolution flipped the gameboard for which countries stood at the top and the most economically powerful country back then, China ruled by the Qing dynasty, did a lot of these protectionist measures and what actually happened was tiny backwater nations instead dominated it decades-centuries later. AGI compresses this to months-years.
It would be not a problem if everyone was slowing their growth. But if e.g. the profit-maximizing autonomous corporations are not slowing their growth, and the countries which have been taken over by AIs are not slowing their growth, and the dictatorships are not slowing their growth, then yes it’s a huge problem that protectionism in human-run democracies slows growth.
Yes I think protectionist viewpoints are very naive. The industrial revolution flipped the gameboard for which countries stood at the top and the most economically powerful country back then, China ruled by the Qing dynasty, did a lot of these protectionist measures and what actually happened was tiny backwater nations instead dominated it decades-centuries later. AGI compresses this to months-years.