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j33ddtoday at 2:41 AM3 repliesview on HN

"In Machines of Loving Grace, I suggest that a 10–20% sustained annual GDP growth rate may be possible.""

Absolutely comical. Do you realise how much that is in absolute terms? These guys are making up as they go along. Cant believe people buy this nonsense.


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esafaktoday at 5:49 AM

Why not? If they increase white color productivity by 25%, and that accounts for 50% of the economy, you'd get such a result.

techblueberrytoday at 2:47 AM

> Cant believe people buy this nonsense.

I somewhat don't disagree, and yet. It feels like more people in the world buy into it than don't? To a large degree?

arthurcolletoday at 2:59 AM

I mean, once we're able to run and operate multinational corporations off-world, GDP becomes something very different indeed