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  1. Sep 2026
    1. In the extreme scenario, the gains from a rapidly expanding economy are unevenly distributed. Most knowledge workers face either lower wages or unemployment, and workers overall get a smaller fraction of the larger pie.

      【非共识】这一观点挑战了技术进步必然惠及所有人的乐观预期,指出在极端AI发展情景下,尽管社会整体财富大幅增加,但知识工作者可能面临工资下降或失业,财富分配可能更加不均。

  2. Dec 2023
    1. Adler & Hutchinson's Great Books of the Western World was an encyclopedia-based attempt to focus society on a shared history as their common ground. H. G. Wells in his World Encyclopedia thesis attempts to forge a new "moving" common ground based on newly evolving knowledge based on distilling truth out of science. Shared history is obviously much easier to dispense and spread about compared to constantly keeping a growing population up to date with the forefront of science.

      How could one carefully compose and juxtapose the two to have a stronger combined effect?

      How could one distribute the effects evenly?

      What does the statistical mechanics for knowledge management look like at the level of societies and nations?

      link to https://hypothes.is/a/abTT1KPDEe6nqxPx4fXggw