I think there’s an objection here that value != consumption of material resources, hence the constraints on growth may be far higher than the author calculates. Still, the article is great
I think that’s vastly compensated by how generous the limits are; realistically, I think “multiple economies the size of ours on a single atom” is way above what’s possible.
Probably the most boiled down production of value can get is “everyone is a simulated entity and they get wireheaded to pleasure producing signals” and putting aside how little something like that resembles humanity you have physical limits to how much information you can compress within a region of space, black hole entropy puts an upper bound to that. So even computation can not be scaled infinitely.
I think that’s vastly compensated by how generous the limits are; realistically, I think “multiple economies the size of ours on a single atom” is way above what’s possible.
Probably the most boiled down production of value can get is “everyone is a simulated entity and they get wireheaded to pleasure producing signals” and putting aside how little something like that resembles humanity you have physical limits to how much information you can compress within a region of space, black hole entropy puts an upper bound to that. So even computation can not be scaled infinitely.