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So long as people have to compete in the workplace, then the resulting equilibrium from everybody having an artificially extended intelligence will probably be ( according to Arnold Kling ) like the Vickies and Thetes in Neal Stephenson's "The Diamond Age".

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I've never read that, what is the resulting equilibrium?

Let's just say endings are not Stephenson's strong point.

I have yet to read it myself :)

Dr. Kling is using the book as a template/metaphor more than as a specific proscriptive. But I've seen this myself in the wind as various crises have held forth since 1973 ( when I was first old enough to ask questions about what was going on ).

http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/vickies-and-thetes/

http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/experts-surveyed-on-the-futu...

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