Musk says money may not matter by 2036; Gary Marcus says don’t trust the forecast
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-07-26
Gary Marcus quotes a The Economist interview in which Elon Musk says money may not matter by 2036 because AI and robots could do every job, leading to deflation rather than inflation.
The post is framed as a rebuttal, with Marcus pointing to Musk’s history of overly optimistic predictions on Mars, self-driving cars, and the Boring Company.
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