China’s 200 million gig workers are a classic case of leapfrogging. They never had all the rights Western workers take for granted, so China jumped straight to a more efficient Internet-based economy.
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India’s Economic Growth Paradox: Why Export-Led Model Matters
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We can keep on harping 5Tr Economy, 45Tr Economy and whatnot. But at the same time: keep seeing job loss, the world kicking Indians out and absolute erosion of wealth from India. You know why this is happening? Because we don't have an export led growth model. Indian IT
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AI Economic Impact: Plow Analogy and Technological Disruption
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That's very funny. Two things to push back on: 1) Plow development absolutely reshaped the human economy and displaced work, but it happened over a long time (moldboard plows came late, etc.) as tech development was slow 2) Whether AI is a normal technology is open to debate
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AGI Economic Implications: Labor Displacement and Human Work Value
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Some new theoretical economics papers looking at the implications of AGI. These two papers argue that a true AGI-level AI (equivalent to a human genius), if achieved, would eventually displace most human labor and reduce the economic value of remaining human work to near-zero.
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AI Agents Adoption: Historical Mobile Era Comparison and Market Dynamics
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Does anyone have a good historical analogy for every company building the same product like with AI agents today? Maybe the AI era is positive-sum like the mobile era, with every company benefiting by having an app.
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End of European dominance in global technological transformation
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Turns out the end of history was just the end of Europe.
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H1B visa $100k fee implementation challenges raised
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If they can even figure out how to pay $100,000 – do their H1B holders have to hand over a check to the immigration officer when they cross the border? How will the immigration office know if they've paid already?
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Economists Examine Transformative AI Impact on Firms and Society
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Nice thread of talk summaries from papers presented by economists & economic sociologists at a conference taking the prospect of transformative AI seriously. Lots of smart people doing interesting work to try and understand what this new era means for firms, science & all of us.
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Grok-4 Fast Model Launch: Cheap, Powerful, 2M Context Window
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@xai was cooking with their new Grok-4 fast Model! So freaking cheap and so good at the same time + 2m context window. This is huts! "2M token context window, and a unified architecture that blends reasoning and non-reasoning modes in one model" Input tokens $0.20 / 1M $0.40 /
