The economy is an optimization system, just like AI. Its reward function is profit.
Profit has some relationship to people’s lives better (I grow a tomato, you buy it, we’re both better off). But the gap between profit and human welfare is vast.
Justin Rosenstein
@justinrosenstein.bsky.social
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Co-founder of One Project & Asana; advisor to Center for Humane Technology
