🔮 What does it cost to make a worker?

In this experimental sketchbook format for paying members, Azeem explores the economic trade-off between having work done by an AI versus a human, either by comparing task costs or by viewing the worker as an entity the economy needs and considering the minimum cost of creating one—parenting, educating, and feeding from child to adult. He contrasts this with AI as "manufactured intelligence" that is highly replicable and follows a learning curve, whereas economically useful human intelligence takes much longer to create with an unknown outcome for a long time.