#141 – Erik Brynjolfsson: Economics of AI, Social Networks, and Technology

Erik Brynjolfsson is an economist at Stanford. Please support this
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the timestamp to jump to that time. (00:00) - Introduction (08:23)
- Exponential growth (12:51) - Elon Musk exponential thinking
(15:08) - Moore's law is a series of revolutions (20:31) - GPT-3
(22:09) - Autonomous vehicles (29:11) - Electricity (33:40) -
Productivity (38:47) - Why is Twitter and Facebook free? (49:03) -
Dismantling the nature of truth (52:24) - Nutpicking and Cancel
Culture (58:39) - How will AI change our world (1:04:40) -
Existential threats (1:06:33) - AI and the nature of work (1:12:39)
- Thoughts on Andrew Yang and UBI (1:18:30) - Economics of
innovation (1:24:37) - Effect of COVID on the economy (1:33:50) -
MIT and Stanford (1:38:23) - Book recommendations (1:41:28) -
Meaning of life