Ep. 278 Murphy on Reparations, SuperAI, and Investment Implications
This episode is a re-broadcast of Bob’s talk given at George Gammon’s Rebel Capitalist Live event held in May 2023 in Orlando. He covered the case for reparations, the threat from SuperAI, and investment implications.
Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:
- The YouTube version of this presentation.
- BMS eps on the economics of slavery (with guests Mark Thornton and Jeffrey Rogers Hummel).
- Why SuperAIs won’t steal our jobs or slaughter us, Parts 1 and 2.
- Help support the Bob Murphy Show.
The audio production for this episode was provided by Podsworth Media.
About the author, Robert
Christian and economist, Chief Economist at infineo, and Senior Fellow with the Mises Institute.
2 Questions
1) AI agreeing to not elimate us: Why would we assume superintelligent AI’s primary goal is our concept of ‘profit?’
2) Slavery: If “free people” are more productive, why would anyone want slaves? Why did they have them?
There’s a lot more to be asked but one wouldn’t want to draw too much lightning on good ol’ Bob’s site here.