On 2019-02-13 13:25:PM, Matt Mahoney wrote:
The tipping point would be where machines are earning half of the world's income
(for their owners), seen as a doubling of world GDP from a baseline
agricultural society. This happened sometime in the 19th century
around the inventions of the railroad and telegraph. Today we have a
100 fold increase, meaning machines are doing 99% of the work.
That seems to credit machines with all progress in GDP/human hour.
Yet some progress has involved improvements in human culture.
Brains acquire better software over time, and that also improves
productivity.
It would certainly simplify the sums if we could credit all progress to
machines, but
in fact some progress takes place in human minds via cumulative cultural
adaptations.
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