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kreldjarn | 6 years ago

Did you read the piece? They talk about VR.

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Ancalagon|6 years ago

Actually, they dismissed it pretty quickly I thought.

jbay808|6 years ago

I believe the "dismissal" is this cogent argument:

Shuffling bits around takes energy; if your virtual reality services grow exponentially and energy production doesn't, then the price of energy must also increase exponentially or else one of your VR companies could buy all the energy and shut down the competition.

Energy production (and computation) are limited by the capacity of the earth to vent heat into space at a reasonable surface temperature.

So unless you allow for an exponentially expanding real-world physical economy, you can't have an exponentially growing virtual economy.

orasis|6 years ago

1 additional bit of information allows exponentially more complexity to exist. Digital scales very very well.