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DanielLC comments on Cosmic expansion vs uploads economics? - Less Wrong Discussion

-3 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 12 July 2013 07:37AM

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Comment author: DanielLC 13 July 2013 12:11:30AM 0 points [-]

What does that mean?

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 13 July 2013 05:47:13AM -1 points [-]

We can't use our current economic theories to effectively model such a situation.

Comment author: polarix 13 July 2013 05:22:14PM 1 point [-]

I'm still unclear, why not? Once the sphere is built, while the raw energy available is fixed, we can still have growth in computation per unit energy, right?

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 14 July 2013 07:46:23AM 0 points [-]

Robin's model is a transitional one, valid until uploads move beyond human, or human society/economy moves beyond what it is now. Radical changes like this one call into question the assumption that human society/economy can be considered otherwise stable across the transition.