Infinite growth on a finite planet
WIP
Many things:
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innequality always increased execept:
- black plague in 1300s which whiped out at least 30% of the population of Europe and Middle East
- post world wars up until 1990s
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How cheap energy is
- Average person's energy consumption: 2000 kcal
- kcal in 100g of fat ~700-~800
- fuel is basically fat (hydrocarbon chains)
- this is why we had oil laps
- or why you can use cooking oil in a diesel engine
- chemically they are very similar
- 1L of gasoline means 7000 kcal enough to power 3 "mechanical" people for one day!
- how much does 1L of gasoline cost?
- that's how cheap mechanical slaves are!
- https://www.planetcritical.com/p/the-thermodynamics-of-degrowth
- https://www.planetcritical.com/p/global-oil-depletion
- https://open.spotify.com/episode/2RXMlUsxdstXKPg586oDDz
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It is impossible to beat the market as individual
- implies on average you will become poorer
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Ana Fern's video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfPy05FdBzw
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Social Media companies can now only extract growth through engagement as they've pretty much brought everybody on their platforms
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AI for automation - with necessarily close to zero slowdown in order to figure out the implications.
- see any of Eliezer Yudkowsky's interviews including his debate with Hotz.
- or see any of Robert Miles videos