The only reason to imagine that plateau is because it’s painful to imagine a near future where humans have zero economic value.

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goatlover 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's not the only reason, technologies do plateau. We're not living in orbiting cities flying fusion powered vehicles around, even though we built rockets and nuclear power more than half a century ago.

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tjr 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Why is this desirable?

	▲	jimbokun 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It’s not, it’s horrifying. But there doesn’t seem to be any off ramp, given the incentives of our current economic system.