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The value of bringing the date of automation forward by one year is estimated at tens of trillions of dollars per year in consumption.

Tamay Besiroglu · AGI is still 30 years away — Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu · 17 Apr 2025

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“a year's worth of delay costs for current people like you know this is this enormous amount of utility that people are able to enjoy um and that gets brought forward by by year or pushed back by year if you delay things by year and how much is this this worth well um you know you can you can look at simple models of how concave people's utility functions are and do some calculations and maybe that's”
“That's worth on the order of tens of trillions of dollars per year in consumption.”
“That is roughly the amount consumers might be willing to defer in order to get, you know, bring forward”
“the date”
“of automation one year.”
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