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Yes, but in the history of humanity, economic growth of above 0.1% a year is also relatively recent. One of the things that C18 radicals insisted upon was a dec
by dash2 3y ago
Yes, but in the history of humanity, economic growth of above 0.1% a year is also relatively recent. One of the things that C18 radicals insisted upon was a decent system of IP.
- Grimblewald 3y agoId argue we're likely relating economic growth (which is measured by contended metrics) to the boom in quality of life we've seen. The problem with this is that the improvements in materials chemistry that have allowed for all these magical things was on the cusp of happening with or without IP. The drive for developing an IP system was more out of necessity in order to capitalize on the coming boom than it was to help that boom occur. Case in point: look how far LLM's have come since llama hit the public sphere vs. how far organisations like google managed to get, with more time and more resources at their disposal.
- dash2 3y agoMaterials chemistry sounds more like the second Industrial Revolution (post 1870) than the first.
- explodingwaffle 3y agoC18 radicals?
- areyousure 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combat_18 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combat_18 is my best guess.
- TheCoelacanth 3y ago18th century, I would assume.