LFP 131: Ben Luong - The Discontinuity Thesis
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Ben Luong discusses his essays on the structural discontinuity caused by AI-driven automation and its implications for capitalism.
AI-driven automation of cognitive labour is not merely another technological transition but a structural discontinuity that will end, sooner or later, the central role of wages in how society operates. This discontinuity can be called “The End of Postwar Capitalism”. That’s the conclusion of a tightly argued set of essays, “The Discontinuity Thesis”, written by our guest in this episode, Ben Luong. The essays look at a range of arguments that all try to make the case that wages paid for cogni...
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