This article is really good food for thought but for now I’m more swayed by Marcus’s more pessimistic take in the comments. I just wanted to add another correction to this post where it says:
“The last time new technology opened up this kind of money, it led to one of the largest declines in extreme poverty and child mortality in human history.”
I explored that statement with Gemini 3.5* and it thinks the above is half right .
It said it’s correct that early 21st tech boom ended up saving the lives of 5.4 million children each year, cutting global child mortality “by more than half in a single generation”.
However it said the roughly 80% reduction in extreme poverty around that time was probably more correlation than causation.
*P.S. Sorry I had to use Gemini cuz I ran out of Claude credits
This article is really good food for thought but for now I’m more swayed by Marcus’s more pessimistic take in the comments. I just wanted to add another correction to this post where it says:
I explored that statement with Gemini 3.5* and it thinks the above is half right .
It said it’s correct that early 21st tech boom ended up saving the lives of 5.4 million children each year, cutting global child mortality “by more than half in a single generation”.
However it said the roughly 80% reduction in extreme poverty around that time was probably more correlation than causation.
*P.S. Sorry I had to use Gemini cuz I ran out of Claude credits