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Re:Save like a pessimist, invest like an optimist by emteycz on Saturday November 14, 2020 @02:44PM (#25095017)
Consider the last 2000 years. The global market went from nothing to outlandish emperor-level luxuries available to multiple billions of humans + all the stuff that we have that even emperors didn't imagine. I think quintillion times growth in "actual value to humans" is not that off. And thinking about the next 2000 years, I don't see any hard limits there too.
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Re:Save like a pessimist, invest like an optimist by ben_w on Saturday November 14, 2020 @02:55PM (#25095093)
A quintillion is larger than the ratio of a synaptic refractory period and a human lifetime by a factor of about 1.5 million. Even with my optimism about transhumanism, I’d be very surprised if that was accurate or will ever be.
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Re:Save like a pessimist, invest like an optimist by emteycz on Saturday November 14, 2020 @04:46PM (#25095922)
It's not about transhumanism, it's simply the (Kardashev) scale of society.
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