Subj : Re: Issue With Message Im
To   : paul lee
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Wed Oct 14 2026 07:39 am

-=> paul lee wrote to Nightfox <=-

 pl> With enough tokens, ppl will be able to do things with zero talent -
 pl> with the talent, tho, yer gonna be a software god. :P

 There's an old SF book called "The Midas Plague" I read as a kid that
 talks about what happens when fusion becomes possible. When energy is
 cheap on fusion scales, you could make diamonds. Why bother digging
 them out of the ground? Much of the limitations on mankind involved
 scarcity of energy - what happens when the equations change?

 The book goes over future trends - economic output soars, society is
 forced to consume to keep the economy going, austerity becomes the new
 wealth, and a social structure arises to consume the goods created by the
 economy.

 If AI computing becomes cheap enough and available that anyone can use
 it, will we prosper? With mankind's apparent inability as a whole to
 look at the big picture, I don't see a utopia in our future.



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