Snapshot · Dwarkesh Podcast
Phil Trammell explained that in a world of investment-specific technical change, one robot today becomes many robots next year, but the number of ballerinas stays the same — a dynamic most macro models miss.
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At 53:00 · chapter starts 43:08
Discussion of selection pressure favoring non-satiating capital accumulators — tech billionaires, AI agents, von Neumann probes. Even a few such agents could dominate economic preferences and drive labor share toward zero. [1] — Dwarkesh Patel "If even a small number of agents — whether AI firms, humans like Elon Musk, or von Neumann probes — have effectively unlimited demand for c…" 43:50
If even a small number of agents — whether AI firms, humans like Elon Musk, or von Neumann probes — have effectively unlimited demand for capital accumulation, they will compound faster than everyone else and gradually dominate the economy's preference structure. Labor share could go to zero through selection alone.
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