A viral essay from Citrini about how AI bullishness could be bearish was impactful enough for Bloomberg to give it partial responsibility for a decline in the stock market, and all the cool economics types are talking about it.

So fine, let's talk.

It's an excellent work of speculative fiction, in that it:

Citrini: Hopefully, reading this leaves you more prepared for potential left tail risks as AI makes the economy increasingly weird.

It is still a work of speculative fiction. It doesn’t let reality get in the way of its ideas.

I appreciate Tor Bair's perspective of this being a case of Cunningham's Law, that the best [...]

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Outline:

(03:17) The Headline Destination

(05:36) ...And Thats Terrible

(08:59) SaaSpocalype Now

(09:48) Levels of Friction Go To Zero ...And Thats Terrible

(11:51) DoorDash and Uber

(13:36) Breaking Into The Marketplace

(14:24) Who Captures The Surplus?

(15:09) For Everything Else

(20:55) Real Estate Realism

(23:14) Everything Is Awesome And No One Is Happy

(23:49) Bearish For Non-AI Stocks Is Reasonable

(25:47) Other Levels of Friction Problems

(26:45) Oh Over There? Thats The Singularity

(28:12) Have I Got A Job For You

(29:51) Systemic Failure

(32:31) What Me Worry (About Economics)?

(37:14) We The People

(39:29) The Efficient Market Hypothesis Is False

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