“The tool does what it says on the tin—it shows how comparative advantage works, and how in an environment with both AI and human labourers, even if the AIs were substantially better than humans at everything, comparative advantage would still ensure there were things the humans should do to jointly maximise economic output.”
The tool is absurd and makes no sense to me. Humans are going to do arts and craft while ASI does 10,000x super AI research? My response tried to hit exactly the point I believe: Comparative Advantage does not meaningfully apply here, AI can get better things for whatever it pays us by doing it itself. The conditions for CA to apply are simply not meaningfully met.
You seem to be hung up on proving comparative advantage “not applying” for some reason, but there is basically no circumstance where it does not apply, in theory.
It simply doesn’t matter, because human equilibrium wages can still go to zero regardless of comparative advantage still applying, and that matters far more. Comparative advantage is a distraction—that is the point of this post.
“The tool does what it says on the tin—it shows how comparative advantage works, and how in an environment with both AI and human labourers, even if the AIs were substantially better than humans at everything, comparative advantage would still ensure there were things the humans should do to jointly maximise economic output.”
The tool is absurd and makes no sense to me. Humans are going to do arts and craft while ASI does 10,000x super AI research? My response tried to hit exactly the point I believe: Comparative Advantage does not meaningfully apply here, AI can get better things for whatever it pays us by doing it itself. The conditions for CA to apply are simply not meaningfully met.
You seem to be hung up on proving comparative advantage “not applying” for some reason, but there is basically no circumstance where it does not apply, in theory.
It simply doesn’t matter, because human equilibrium wages can still go to zero regardless of comparative advantage still applying, and that matters far more. Comparative advantage is a distraction—that is the point of this post.
It can kill you and turn your atoms into compute hardware, what does CA say about this?
It probably suggests the equilibrium wage is negative. Still applies though.