Anton Korinek on Automating Work and the Economics of an Intelligence Explosion
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Anton Korinek joins the podcast to discuss the effects of automation on wages and labor, how we measure the complexity of tasks, the economics of an intelligence explosion, and the market structure of the AI industry. Learn more about Anton's work at https://www.korinek.com   Timestamps:  00:00 Automation and wages  14:32 Complexity for people and machines  20:31 Moravec's paradox  26:15 Can people switch careers?   30:57 Intelligence explosion economics  44:08 The lump of labor fallacy   51:40 An industry for nostalgia?   57:16 Universal basic income   01:09:28 Market structure in AI
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