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Alex Imas and Phil Trammell – What remains scarce after AGI?
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Human employees would be hard to integrate into the machine economy
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O-ring theory explains current limits on AI automation. But once AIs are reliable enough, the same logic will make human integration into AI-native production flows practically impossible. [1] — Dwarkesh Patel "O-ring theory explains why automating 9 out of 10 job tasks sometimes lowers output quality enough to make automation counterproductive. Bu…" 39:55
O-ring theory explains why automating 9 out of 10 job tasks sometimes lowers output quality enough to make automation counterproductive. But this friction works symmetrically: once AIs are reliable enough, the same logic will make humans — who slow down AI production flows — impossible to integrate.
