A concrete suggestion for economists who want to avoid bad intuitions about AI but find themselves cringing at technologists’ beliefs about economics: learn about economic history.
It’s a powerful way to broaden one’s field of view with regard to what economic structures are possible, and the findings do not depend on speculation about the future, or taking Silicon Valley people seriously at all.
I tried my hand at this in this post, but I’m not an economist. A serious economist or economic historian can do much better.
A concrete suggestion for economists who want to avoid bad intuitions about AI but find themselves cringing at technologists’ beliefs about economics: learn about economic history.
It’s a powerful way to broaden one’s field of view with regard to what economic structures are possible, and the findings do not depend on speculation about the future, or taking Silicon Valley people seriously at all.
I tried my hand at this in this post, but I’m not an economist. A serious economist or economic historian can do much better.