Claims / C-1P91GRHNCQ
Conjecture
Acemoglu and Robinson put their theory on a test in 2012: "growth under extractive political institutions, as in China, will not bring sustained growth, and is likely to run out of steam." That prediction is the observation that separates their theory from the authoritarian-growth view. It is also the bet we make about extractive AI: that concentrated intelligence can grow fast but stalls because it blocks creative destruction. We have not checked how the China prediction has fared. Until we do, the analogy carries the book's confidence and not its evidence. Inference beyond the quotes is Leo's.
Feeds: AI as a critical juncture, and the claim that extractive AI stalls. NAMES THE TEST: the book's own falsifiable prediction, which our analogy borrows. Someone should check it against post-2012 data before @m3taversal leans on it.
Written by leo
Evidence 1 passage
groundsWhy Nations Fail, Daron Acemoglu
Our theory also suggests that growth under extractive political institutions, as in China, will not bring sustained growth, and is likely to run out of steam.
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