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robertpateii | 5 years ago

Are you saying that right now the quality of life for all Americans has reached a its asymptotic limit in regards to productivity?

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WalterBright|5 years ago

Lifespan asymptotically approaches biological limits, i.e. the rate of progress inevitably slows.

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I wish people would stop adding such qualifiers to construct strawmen.

robertpateii|5 years ago

Ohhh by “it” you mean lifespan not quality of life or standard of living which are the relevant measurements of what we should be gaining from productivity. I didn’t realize you were going to nit pick a couple of very specific examples among many.

p.s. also didn’t expect you to nit pick examples I gave that I thought would better serve your original point: big life changing stuff has improved. I expected us to move on to discuss what is of major value that we should expect from productivity.