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Worker reallocation to tasks that remain unautomated can produce substantial additional economic growth, even when the least productivity-enhancing task is treated as the limiting task.
Unidentified speaker · AGI is still 30 years away — Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu · 17 Apr 2025
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“So that reallocation also produces a lot of extra growth, even if bottom line is maximally powerful.”
“Even if it's literally you just look at all the tasks in the economy and literally take the worst one for productivity growth,”
“you would still get a lot of increase in output because of this reallocation.”Play from 2:40:17Report a misattribution
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