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Post-AGI, mass wage employment does not follow, essay argues

Post-AGI, mass wage employment does not follow, essay argues

A LessWrong essay challenges the relaxed economic consensus that comparative advantage guarantees human labor stays worth hiring after AGI. It argues this does not hold up, even in an optimistic future with power broadly distributed.

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