Re:The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in t...
by robertlagrant on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @05:21AM
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The quest to eliminate scarcity is hitting some important road blocks:
- land is scarce in a way that is not scalable. Not everyone can live in as nice a place
- people are the same. Not everyone can be taught by the top people in a field
- genuine improvement is replaced with other effort that is only there as a competitive advantage. You may now get food cheaply rather than having to work in fields yourself, so you can have a business, but now you have to spend time on social media people for that business because if you don't you won't be competitive. I.e. we will keep inventing things that require just as many people, even though they don't add as much foundational value as, say, food / energy / safety do.
- land is scarce in a way that is not scalable. Not everyone can live in as nice a place - people are the same. Not everyone can be taught by the top people in a field - genuine improvement is replaced with other effort that is only there as a competitive advantage. You may now get food cheaply rather than having to work in fields yourself, so you can have a business, but now you have to spend time on social media people for that business because if you don't you won't be competitive. I.e. we will keep inventing things that require just as many people, even though they don't add as much foundational value as, say, food / energy / safety do.