What is relevant is the total production/supply of goods and services divided by the total population.
As production goes up faster than population growth, then the average standard of living goes up, regardless of who or what is generating the production.
Equitable distribution is the challenge, not imagining how to accelerate productivity - that is taking care of itself.
You are absolutely correct. As one trained in economics, business, and sociology (and math and physics) the shape of the future society will be in a response to a post-scarcity world. It is up to all of us to shed the puritanical viewpoint of 'productivity = self worth' and embrace the future.
Will it resemble socialism? Absolutely. Is that bad? Only if it is perverted to serve the cause of dictators .
It has been a while since I built a early version of a plutonium fission bomb, but if I recall correctly, the depleted uranium jacket was there as an inertial mass to help concentrate the implosion energy inward. It was not directly involved in the fission reaction.
First off, the resources on earth that have been utilized are trivial. Second, most non energy resources are recyclable. Third, energy resources in the not distant future will dwarf what we can utilize. Fourth, the Universe is unimaginably large and full of stuff - same is operationally true if you just limit yourself to this solar system.
You clearly don't understand the basic premise: With increasingly capable automation, there is the potential for unlimited production capacity, totally unconstrained by labor availability (and no, there is no real raw materials constraint).
At that time, one's personal productivity becomes unrelated to one's economic well being. So we will then have a choice between a production controlling class ( the 0.01%) having everything, with no-one with the means to constitute a market, or we can find a way to provide consumption capacity to the 99.99% of humanity.
UBI is one possible solution.
And please, don't go all Puritan work ethic on me. The truth is that the lifestyle is basically identical to an idyllic retirement, just without the 40 years of angst. And no-one shames retirees for not working if the don't want to.
I would bitch mightily if my house were close enough to the public for others to use my router while I pay for the power. Can you imagine how much Comcast is benefiting by not paying for the power load their millions of wifi hotspots are consuming?
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Hitchcock might disagree
If yellow is the only color choice...
Can't wait to see three boosters land at once
I don't think so...
Given how many failed software development programs there have been, you must be a bundle of joy in the brainstorming meetings.
What is relevant is the total production/supply of goods and services divided by the total population.
As production goes up faster than population growth, then the average standard of living goes up, regardless of who or what is generating the production.
Equitable distribution is the challenge, not imagining how to accelerate productivity - that is taking care of itself.
You are absolutely correct. As one trained in economics, business, and sociology (and math and physics) the shape of the future society will be in a response to a post-scarcity world. It is up to all of us to shed the puritanical viewpoint of 'productivity = self worth' and embrace the future.
Will it resemble socialism? Absolutely. Is that bad? Only if it is perverted to serve the cause of dictators .
Always safe to credit Hawking for cosmological theory, but a gratuitous mention might have better used Alan Guth
It has been a while since I built a early version of a plutonium fission bomb, but if I recall correctly, the depleted uranium jacket was there as an inertial mass to help concentrate the implosion energy inward. It was not directly involved in the fission reaction.
That's all
So AI works if it passes the Turing test, or if we can't understand them at all?....
I don't think so
http://www.verbix.com/webverbi...
One person can feed ten people for 25 days, so after 25 days there will only be 900 people to feed....etc, etc.
I believe the word you were searching for is 'run'.
First off, the resources on earth that have been utilized are trivial. Second, most non energy resources are recyclable. Third, energy resources in the not distant future will dwarf what we can utilize. Fourth, the Universe is unimaginably large and full of stuff - same is operationally true if you just limit yourself to this solar system.
Bad statistic, no attribution. Argument by assertion is invalid (so I assert).
You clearly don't understand the basic premise: With increasingly capable automation, there is the potential for unlimited production capacity, totally unconstrained by labor availability (and no, there is no real raw materials constraint).
At that time, one's personal productivity becomes unrelated to one's economic well being. So we will then have a choice between a production controlling class ( the 0.01%) having everything, with no-one with the means to constitute a market, or we can find a way to provide consumption capacity to the 99.99% of humanity.
UBI is one possible solution.
And please, don't go all Puritan work ethic on me. The truth is that the lifestyle is basically identical to an idyllic retirement, just without the 40 years of angst. And no-one shames retirees for not working if the don't want to.
What is the expiration date on these cited patents? Do no others exist ? Are you anti-patent?
Or do you resent others accomplishing that of which you are incapable?
How did your coverage change?
Like the sex scandals destroyed FDR?
This is nonsense.
What you describe is anarchy.
You may prefer anarchy, but don't equate it with civilization, however imperfect.
No purpose to it?
People go to Death Valley, Philadelphia, church, and climb Mt. Everest.
No purpose is required, just curiosity.
Not fuel, reaction mass
Indeed, and 640KB should be fine too...
I would bitch mightily if my house were close enough to the public for others to use my router while I pay for the power. Can you imagine how much Comcast is benefiting by not paying for the power load their millions of wifi hotspots are consuming?