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netcanyesterday at 10:37 PM0 repliesview on HN

Yes. I agree. There is a context and it makes sense within this context. But, the economy or industry is not there to produce accountability, liability, court-legibility. These are support structures, not end goals.

I said this in response to the example above, that humans are needed where accountability is a concern. This is pretty distant from the macro.

If we think of the 19th century economy... it was mostly about food, household products and suchlike. Now the economy is a lot harder to reason about and it's easy to miss the forrest for the trees... when talking about how technology will affect it.

Accountability is required to work with your payment processor, which works with visa and mastercard, that also have requirements, etc. Depending on where (of anywhere) paradigm shifts occur... we may or may not even need these functions.

That's why it's so hard to reason our way to predictions about upcoming Ai-mediated changes.