Lots of good stuff and food for though here. But where does the energy for all this come from? 80% of primary energy is still fossil, and there will never be more of them in timescales relevant to us. Yes, they were a nice gift but sadly came without instructions. We'd better have a high enough ROI perpetual energy system by then. And obviously copper, silver, high quality sand, etc will get scarce. Aaand unless we want to perpetuate global inequality also, there's going to be some harsh accounting to do over how much everyone gets. With declining global population at some point, we're either going to need a lot of robots (heyy did someone mention resource depletion and competition again?) or get used to fireside stories of The Great Consumer Age.
Long fire insurance
Yeah solid, also buy water treatment stocks
Good piece. Fun read too.
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Lots of good stuff and food for though here. But where does the energy for all this come from? 80% of primary energy is still fossil, and there will never be more of them in timescales relevant to us. Yes, they were a nice gift but sadly came without instructions. We'd better have a high enough ROI perpetual energy system by then. And obviously copper, silver, high quality sand, etc will get scarce. Aaand unless we want to perpetuate global inequality also, there's going to be some harsh accounting to do over how much everyone gets. With declining global population at some point, we're either going to need a lot of robots (heyy did someone mention resource depletion and competition again?) or get used to fireside stories of The Great Consumer Age.
Thanks - making my brain hurt!
Still comes down to thermodynamics…
Who will be consuming all this compute?
What’s the question that we will ask when all our questions have been answered?
As my 6yr old said to me: “listen… it’s the future coming Dad”
Humans then agents, slow and then all at once