I don't see this anywhere in Xyrik's comment.
It's what I took this to mean:
obviously this is extremely hypothetical as it's virtually impossible to get all human life on Earth to actually do that
but maybe you understood it differently.
you can't have any unsolvable problems because elven magic, done.
I don't see any obvious absurdity about saying "suppose problem A only resolved by elven magic; then what would happen to problems B, C, and D?".
I don't see any obvious absurdity about saying "suppose problem A only resolved by elven magic; then what would happen to problems B, C, and D?".
I do see an obvious incoherence. Xyrik's scenario was;
a hypothetical situation in which everyone on the planet decides to temporarily get rid of the concept of money or currency, and pool our collective resources and ideas without worrying about who owes who
This is a highly complex scenario, made apparently simple because the complexity is hidden inside the words. What is the problem A that is the...
How much money would it take to engineer biological immortality for at least half of the world's population, within 20 years, with 99% confidence?