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Stuart_Armstrong 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: Stuart_Armstrong 14 July 2013 07:50:18AM 0 points [-]

Basic economics won't change, but Robin's model assumes a relatively fixed society/economy across the transition (and Robin's model is pitched as temporary, before changes get too great. The Dyson argument implies changes may get too great, immediately)