Comment by jimbokun
6 hours ago
The only reason to imagine that plateau is because it’s painful to imagine a near future where humans have zero economic value.
6 hours ago
The only reason to imagine that plateau is because it’s painful to imagine a near future where humans have zero economic value.
It's not the only reason, technologies do plateau. We're not living in orbiting cities flying fusion powered vehicles around, even though we built rockets and nuclear power more than half a century ago.
Why is this desirable?
It’s not, it’s horrifying.
But there doesn’t seem to be any off ramp, given the incentives of our current economic system.