The demand-saturation question: will ever-new consumer goods keep AI-driven demand growing?
binarybits · x · 2026-09-21
- binarybits relays Parker Trammell's pet thesis: a succession of increasingly amazing consumer goods will be invented, so overall demand keeps growing even as individual goods saturate. He notes it's hard to prove this won't happen but remains skeptical.
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