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It all boils down to one thing: whether humans have some irreplaceable special sauce ("soul") or not.

If yes, all those fancy economic arguments (Jevons blah blah) actually apply.

If not, we are cooked.

EDIT: No idea why I am downvoted for stating the obvious. (I say this at the risk of looking unselfaware.)

It all boils down to whether AIs can become more than just correlation engines.

Either that, or whether humans are more than just correlation engines.

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