Economy Could Double Extremely Fast Once AI and Millions of Robots Scale
_sholtodouglas · x · 2026-08-14
The author argues that once we achieve sufficiently advanced AI and deploy tens of millions of robots, the economy could double at an unprecedented rate. He advises pricing these economic doublings into mental models for the 2030s and strongly recommends Damon Binder's blog series on the topic.
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