I think catch-up growth in developing countries, based on adopting existing technologies, would have positive effects on climate change, AI risk, etc. In contrast, ‘frontier’ growth in developed countries is based on technological innovation, and is potentially more dangerous.
I think catch-up growth in developing countries, based on adopting existing technologies, would have positive effects on climate change, AI risk, etc. I think catch-up growth in developing countries, based on adopting existing technologies, would have positive effects on climate change, AI risk, etc.
I’m curious about the intuitions behind this. I think developing countries with fast growth have historically had quite high pollution and carbon output. I also think that more countries joining the “developed” category could quite possibly make coordination around technological risks harder.
I think what you’re saying is plausible but I don’t know of the arguments for that case.
If the case for growth in rich and poor is very different (possibly negative in the one but not the other case), then it starts to matter a lot whether we can promote growth in poor countries without promoting growth in rich countries as a side-effect. I don’t know how the proposed interventions fare in this respect?
I think catch-up growth in developing countries, based on adopting existing technologies, would have positive effects on climate change, AI risk, etc. In contrast, ‘frontier’ growth in developed countries is based on technological innovation, and is potentially more dangerous.
I’m curious about the intuitions behind this. I think developing countries with fast growth have historically had quite high pollution and carbon output. I also think that more countries joining the “developed” category could quite possibly make coordination around technological risks harder.
I think what you’re saying is plausible but I don’t know of the arguments for that case.
If the case for growth in rich and poor is very different (possibly negative in the one but not the other case), then it starts to matter a lot whether we can promote growth in poor countries without promoting growth in rich countries as a side-effect. I don’t know how the proposed interventions fare in this respect?