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Jiang credits this method with an explosion of productivity, population capacity, wealth, technology, and progress beginning around 1700, while questioning whether the population outcome is good.
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Productivity
The stream begins as a thank-you and career update, but its real pressure is larger: leave China, refuse the influencer trap, build schools, democratize creativity, and prepare communities for a world Jiang thinks is...
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The stream begins as a thank-you and career update, but its real pressure is larger: leave China, refuse the influencer trap, build schools, democratize creativity, and prepare communities for a world Jiang thinks is...
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He frames the unresolved question around AI as simple utility: it can make impressive media outputs, but Jiang sees no demonstrated way it improves underlying economic productivity.
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"Yeah, I mean, ChatGPT, AI, it will just degrade over time. And, and so, like, the big question is, like, no one's figured out..."
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"...shows us, okay? So for most of human history, progress, meaning productivity, has been flat. And then starting around the year 1700, it starts..."
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"And this has meant that we are now able to feed more and more people. So before 1700, you really couldn't get above a..."
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"...is something that i should look deep deep into uh seven productivity says the professor reading one piece is a dream come true yeah..."
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"...that question? Yes. Look, we are entering the greatest period of productivity, the greatest productivity revolution in the history of civilization. Nothing will, over..."
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"...going to, you know, make people poor? No. Economic progress and productivity makes people richer not poorer. And so, we're going to see amazing,..."
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"...benefit of American style freedom. The key to this was increased productivity on American style production lines in a transnational free market. For that..."
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"...few economic opportunities. The capital and talent are leaving the country. Productivity is at zero, according to the Bank of Canada. You have a..."
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"...policies. At the same time, we talked about this last class, productivity, real economy, the amount of work you do, it's going way down...."
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"...have to treat people nicely if you want to maximize their productivity. But where were the Mongols based? They were based in East Asia...."
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