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"Are spells actual things? Are we making things when we cast spells?" I was trying to pin down some questions I was having – there had to be some element of normal physics that wasn't completely shattered by the sheer impossibility of all of this.

Any serious economist wouldn't be worried about super-intelligent robots, I thought. And anyway, it's probably appropriate that someone winning a Nobel prize for research into stable equilibria in skills-clustering modelling of relative advantage in trade would get the first robot butlers that might be