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As capacity expands, bottleneck will be in human verification of output. And as that (more slowly) gets automated, human economic activity will move to more “artisanal” domains. Interesting enough, this is consistent with historical precedent.
“ We then apply GABRIEL to study the history of tech adoption, using it to assemble a novel dataset of 37,000 technologies. Our analysis documents a tenfold decline of time lags from invention to adoption over the indu! strial age, from ~50 years to ~5 years today”