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Wouldn't you consider the Maduro capture a minimally lethal operation?

If the AI were instead human, that human would almost certainly be cited as a co-author, contributor, or whatever.


Of course there's jobs that don't have a productivity boost from AI. The question is whether across the entire economy there will be a 5% GDP boost.

Teachers, cleaners, and daycare workers may see 0% gains, but don't be surprised if that is made up for by 10% gains the productivity of tech, law, marketing, advertising, manufacturing, government, etc. (okay maybe not government).


How can advertising and marketing become more profitable from this? It's a genuine question, but I don't see how making advertising and marketing easier for everybody and hence flooding the already flooded market would result in increased productivity.


By significantly reducing the cost of creating the advertisements. Want to air a commercial? You no longer have to have actors, sets, designers, costumes, etc. just ask AI to make you a commercial and describe what you want it to look like.

Consider all the labor and capital spent across all the advertising real estate in the world. Commercial, online ads, billboards, labeling. The inputs to make all these things are now greatly reduced. To increase productivity, it doesn't matter that the market is flooded, just that it's much easier to make these things.


Makes sense. You also free time and people to do other things.


Of course they should be, but that's not what will happen. Humans are not rational, so self-driving cars must be significantly safer than human drivers to avoid as much political pushback as possible.


Monopolies are essentially 100% horizontal integration. Vertical integration is a completely different concept.


Parking for charging can be done en masse though. For example, waymo could have a single large charging facility somewhere out-of-the-way. Small price to pay in my opinion.

The parking gains are huge though. As adoption increases, parking demand for shopping centers, apartments, workplaces, etc. should all decrease. Say hello to higher density cities. Although I imagine it will take quite a while (decades) for these pressures to have a real effect.


Yeah I imagine it will be many decades. Simply because minimum parking requirements would have to be removed (which is unpopular in a lot of cities), and then redevelopment would need to take place based on demand and investment potential.


California, while not a country, is basically the size of one and they have made significant progress with this strategy.

Why is this any different than the sheer size of manufacturing and natural resources to extract other forms of energy?

Oil, natural gas, coal also all take vast amounts of capital investment and resource extraction to implement.


I think that a nuclear power plant is vastly more efficient on this aspect.

And California has the most expensive electricity prices in the US.

https://www.electricchoice.com/electricity-prices-by-state/


Surely it is? The fixed installation costs are spread over a smaller number of panels.

Which do you think is cheaper: installing an acre of solar panels across 300 seperate homes, or an acre of panels in one go on a solar farm?


Exactly. Funnily enough though, these city council requirements are a big part of the reason we aren't building enough housing around the US.


Of the dual mandate, which would you say prioritizes the investor class, and how would you approach it differently?


You asked about which piece "of the dual mandate", but the OP said "operates as" which I am going to reply to.

Does the Fed can any data from labor sources or unions? I am asking in honest because the few reports from them that I have looked into(mostly around unemployment) all seem to be polls solely sourced from investor class assets like companies.

If they are only sourcing from one biased source for their data, they wouldn't have to have a bad mandate or manipulate it, to operate like it was for the benefit of the data source, right?


> promote maximum employment and price stability (low, stable inflation, targeting 2%)

The dual mandate says nothing about asset prices. The only prices it mentions are those involved in CPI calcs.


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