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It is absolutely not the most basic assumption based into economic models. Neither you nor I can find one single person who believes that. It is the weakest pos
by erulabs 3y ago
It is absolutely not the most basic assumption based into economic models. Neither you nor I can find one single person who believes that. It is the weakest possible form of an argument you are intentionally misconstruing. This is the straw in the straw man. The steelman version of that argument is "can logarithmic growth continue for one hundred thousand times longer than the expected lifetime of our sun?". I think it's actually quite easy to say yes to that. One fun idea here is Von Neumann probes[1].
There is infinite distance between infinity and a negative number.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-replicating_spacecraft#Von_Neumann_probes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-replicating_spacecraft#Vo...
- CatWChainsaw 3y agoThere is infinite distance between 0 and 1. Fantastical machines as evidence for a fantastical argument is not compelling in the slightest.