Alex Imas

“Something like the relational sector, which is what I defined as basically services and goods where the fact that the human was in the loop was actually part of the value of that product.”

“Andy Atkinson has this paper showing that actually if you keep the accounting constant over the years, labor share hasn't even fallen ever.”

“Alex Imas, Director of AGI Economics at Google DeepMind and Professor of Economics at University of Chicago”

“Andy Hall wrote a really nice blog post about the politics of AGI. And he made a really interesting observation. If there's a 2% increase in unemployment, the political winds completely change.”

“To Molly's excellent essay, I think in some ways, like one of the worst scenarios is a drip scenario because of the political economy piece.”

“You had David Reich on the show — his point on the last podcast was that we're buzzing with natural selection. So even if you get some sort of indifference now, you might get selection to point into an even stronger preference for other humans.”