Google researcher on AGI economists: useful near-term insights, post-AGI models are guesswork
docmilanfar · x · 2026-09-20
Google researcher Milanfar on economists studying AGI: brilliant people, but most are 'playing a game of academic dress-up'. He finds their insights on near-term labor transitions and verification bottlenecks genuinely useful, but any 'post-AGI equilibrium' models seem like total guesswork.
A one-line demarcation of where AGI economics is credible and where it stops being grounded.
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