David Deutsch fixed his dishwasher with ChatGPT, says GDP can't measure knowledge growth
connoraxiotes · x · 2026-09-12
Physicist David Deutsch says ChatGPT helped him repair a dishwasher he was about to replace, drawing a pointed conclusion: such software increases a country's real wealth while decreasing measured GDP, because the headline economic indicator is structurally incapable of registering what actually makes people better off — the growth of knowledge.
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