We argue for some more fundamental reasons for limited growth, and specifically (and I think fully) address William Kiley’s point 3.
I also think that we can make some strong claims about the bound implied by optimal human brain emulation based on fundamental physics to find a fairly pessimistic upper bound on exponential growth past 10k years. (We looked at 100k years in our example, but we also talked about far, far smaller than 2% growth.)
Thanks for this, it helped shore things up for me, and I think it’s maybe valuable enough to link to in the main piece with short disclaimer e.g. “Does the value/atoms stuff seem weird or unintuitive to you? Read more here”
I’ve just put up a post with more discussion of this point: https://www.cold-takes.com/more-on-multiple-world-size-economies-per-atom/
It seems like this is partly covering the same ground as my paper with Anders; https://philpapers.org/rec/MANWIT-6
We argue for some more fundamental reasons for limited growth, and specifically (and I think fully) address William Kiley’s point 3.
I also think that we can make some strong claims about the bound implied by optimal human brain emulation based on fundamental physics to find a fairly pessimistic upper bound on exponential growth past 10k years. (We looked at 100k years in our example, but we also talked about far, far smaller than 2% growth.)
Thanks for this, it helped shore things up for me, and I think it’s maybe valuable enough to link to in the main piece with short disclaimer e.g. “Does the value/atoms stuff seem weird or unintuitive to you? Read more here”