Comment by thuuuomas
5 days ago
We aren’t even mining asteroids near Earth’s orbit. Space colonization is a ketamine dream. There’s no extraterrestrial economy. Earth is all we have. One pie.
5 days ago
We aren’t even mining asteroids near Earth’s orbit. Space colonization is a ketamine dream. There’s no extraterrestrial economy. Earth is all we have. One pie.
A pie that includes sand which is now turned into GPUs that can solve complex problems described in English. Value that was unlocked fairly recently from “one pie”.
Tell me, is the deployment of that famous talking sand at all resource-constrained?
Of course: Everything is resource-constrained. That’s why it’s called economics.
The question was whether the “pie”—total economic output—has a meaningful upper bound on growth because we only have a whole planet full of resources to exploit as our minds and capabilities allow.
The answer is no, and history bears that out.
Because we are spending our resources on stupid shit like tiktok virals funded by ads.