Hyena comments on Peter Thiel warns of upcoming (and current) stagnation - Less Wrong Discussion
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Given that productivity growth was slow for most of human history, it seems more appropriate to ask why it was so fast for a while. I keep thinking it may have been that manufacturing precision reached a point where we could drink a couple centuries of scientific milkshake.
In the middle of that sentence I was expecting a "low-hanging fruit" analogy, then you blindsided me with a milkshake.
That's not a good thing to be blindsided by.