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The Industrial Revolution was associated with a decoupling of population growth from overall economic growth.
Daniel Kokotajlo · AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo · 3 Apr 2025
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“there's been this like decoupling of population growth from overall economic”
“growth that happened with the industrial revolution and so in some sense maybe you could say that's an example of like previously these things grew in tandem like more population more technology”Play from 38:00Report a misattribution
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