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Pick a Topic: What Should a Cowen-Hanson Debate Be About?

Who wouldn't want to see Tyler Cowen publicly debate Robin Hanson? Well, aside from the masses? I think they'd both...

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"Robin believes that we are headed toward a "robot economy" with rates of exponential growth exceeding 300 percent a year. Yet the wages of labor may fall below subsistence, leading to widespread poverty for those who do not own capital."

Hasn't this claim been made before? Didn't Linus Pauling sign a petition to LBJ predicting that computers would create massive unemployment? If so, doesn't the current "internet economy" make the future "robot economy" much less scary?

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