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Because population growth is inherently slower than capital growth, capital comes to play a larger role.

Daniel Kokotajlo · AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo · 3 Apr 2025

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“But it's just that like population growth rate is just like inherently kind of slow and the growth rate of capital is much faster.”
“And so it just comes to be a bigger part of the story.”
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