HomeGrown Humans - Daniel Schmachtenberger - Existential Risk
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How Many People Can the Earth Support Sustainably?
The energy is mostly now moving some bits around in the digital world but mostly moving atoms around in the physical world. It's important to understand that where everybody's focused on we can keep growing GDP forever without hurting the earth because it'll all be digital value now that's a nonsense idea. Ultimately there's only people have a finite amount of time and attention to engage in content online so you do end up getting a diminishing return on how much like what how much of the economy can be purely digital relative to the energy and atoms part yeah we're going to look at these are very important real questions.
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