AGI may not solve the distribution problem humans keep misunderstanding
femke_plantinga · x · 2026-07-23
The post argues that the hardest and most misunderstood problem after AGI may be distribution: if AGI arrives, does that automatically solve human disputes over who gets what?
It frames AGI as a test of whether intelligence alone can resolve political and economic allocation problems, or whether those conflicts remain even in a post-AGI world.
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