Hmm, might the lawn mowing analogy break down with increasing speed difference and dependencies? Imagine if the lawn had to be ready for Tiger to play golf and Tiger being 1000 times faster than Joe.
Not sure if related, but I looked up Robin Hanson‘s predictions of the role of humans in the Age of Em, where brain emulations (ems) would become feasible and increasingly perform most of the economic activities on Earth. Summary of chapter 27 on the book website:
As humans are marginal to the em world, their outcomes are harder to predict. Humans can’t earn wages, but might become like retirees today, who we rarely kill or steal from. The human fraction of wealth falls, but total human wealth rises fast. Humans are objects of em gratitude, but not respect.
Unfortunately, I don’t recall how he derived at the conclusion, maybe somebody else can chime in.
Hmm, might the lawn mowing analogy break down with increasing speed difference and dependencies? Imagine if the lawn had to be ready for Tiger to play golf and Tiger being 1000 times faster than Joe.
Not sure if related, but I looked up Robin Hanson‘s predictions of the role of humans in the Age of Em, where brain emulations (ems) would become feasible and increasingly perform most of the economic activities on Earth. Summary of chapter 27 on the book website:
Unfortunately, I don’t recall how he derived at the conclusion, maybe somebody else can chime in.