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> When the majority of the population is essentially living extremely efficiently on a vegetarian diet without so much as personal transport, one should expect
by sdinsn 8y ago
> When the majority of the population is essentially living extremely efficiently on a vegetarian diet without so much as personal transport, one should expect very little economic shock from issues as remote and abstract as gradual technology change
That does not make sense...
- contingencies 8y agoif(population.de_linked_from_technology && population.resource_consumption_effectively_trivial) { assert(is_irrelevant(gradual_technology_change)); }
- intertextuality 8y agoRewriting the same incongruent phrase in pseudo-code does nothing to help your case. The phrase doesn't make sense logically. You don't have to be an avid consumer of technology to be affected by gradual technology change.
- contingencies 8y agoHave you been to rural India? Many people don't even have reliable power. Industrial automation trajectories are so far removed from their reality as to be fairy tales.