Awesome post!

Note the U.S. hasn't had 10+% GDP growth since the great depression.  But yeah I'd be happy to take some bets about this--north of 5% for instance.

Weirdly aggressive reply.  

First of all, the AI 2027 people disagree about the numbers.  Lifland's median is nearer to 2031.  I have a good amount of uncertainty, so I wouldn't be shocked if, say, we don't get the intelligence explosion for a decadeish.  

"you've predicted a 95-trillion-fold increase in AI research capacity under a 'conservative scenario.'" is false. I was just giving that as an example of the rapid exponential growth.  

So the answer, in short, is that I'm not very confident in extremely rapid growth within the next few years.  I'd probably put +10% GDP growth by 2029 below 50%.  

Sure.  I'd bet that in the next 15 years the U.S. will have 10+% GDP growth in at least one year.   

Less sure about pre 2028 bets. 

I meant why the low probability of bee sentience.

Out of curiosity, why so low? 

Want to come on the podcast and argue about the person-affecting view? 

Probably our disagreements are too vast to settle much in a comment. 

I mean, that might help with a few problems, but doesn't help with a lot of the problems.  Also, it just seems so crazy.  Giving up axiology to hold on to a not even very widely shared intuition?  Giving up the idea that the world would be better if it had lots of extra happy people and every existing person was a million times better? 

Amazing stuff!