Models Can Solve Millennium Problems Yet US GDP Grows 1.5%: The Yudkowsky–Christiano Crux
connoraxiotes · x · 2026-09-10
- A post highlights a rarely-reconciled tension: models can now resolve Millennium Problems while annualized US GDP growth sits at just 1.5%.
- Eliezer Yudkowsky (relative pessimist) reminds that this was the central crux of his disagreement with Paul Christiano (relative optimist): will we actually see four years of world GDP doubling before things break? He suggests reality is increasingly siding with the pessimists.
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