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Hyena comments on Peter Thiel warns of upcoming (and current) stagnation - Less Wrong Discussion

24 Post author: SilasBarta 04 October 2011 05:30PM

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Comment author: Hyena 05 October 2011 01:02:33AM 13 points [-]

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.

Comment author: pedanterrific 05 October 2011 01:24:33AM 7 points [-]

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.