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June monthly update

Published 7 months ago • 1 min read

Hope you've all had a good June. I've only posted 1 book summary and 2 blog posts:

Book summaries

  • ​Deep Utopia by Nick Bostrom (22 mins) — this weird book explores the question of what utopia could look like and what problems might be left after we've reached a state of technological maturity.

Blog posts — both posts this month came about as I've been thinking and reading about the economics of AI. I'm planning to do a third post that will address that more directly, but these two lay the groundwork for my thinking.

  • ​Shouldn’t productivity improvements reduce GDP? (10 mins) — if we can produce things more efficiently with fewer inputs, why does GDP keep going up? I offer up 3 reasons.
  • ​GDP has never been a measure of well-being (14 mins) — even though GDP has never measured well-being, it has been a pretty decent proxy for it to date. However, its relevance as a proxy has already start to come under pressure in rich countries, and with the advent of the Internet. I expect that trend will continue with AI.

Anyway. I expect to post less in the next month or two as personal life will be rather hectic, so you probably won't see another "monthly" update for a while.

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