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I don't think at this point in history limitations drive the the way we do things, abundance does.
by wseqyrku 4mo ago
I don't think at this point in history limitations drive the the way we do things, abundance does.
- ms_menardi 4mo agoIncreasingly, the "what do we have the most of?" questions will return "RAM" less and less often.
- wseqyrku 4mo agoNuclear-powered hyperscale data centers in your neighborhood disagree. Not saying it's a good thing, but like it or not, if you ask "what generally drives how we do things", that's probably it.
- gregw2 4mo agoI don't see the underlying economic dynamics of the relevance of substitution costs driving the way we do things going away. And substitution costs are all about limitations. Abundance and limitations are a bit of ying/yang phenomena in terms of driving things, you don't have one without the other. Igor Stravinsky: "Constraint drives creativity" (I also don't see Amdahl's Law --which is fundamentally about limitations -- going away any time soon.) I do agree that there are compounding abundancies present.