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« Last post by tp4tissue on Fri, 11 September 2026, 07:44:56 »
AI productivity is a pipe dream.
ROBOTS DO EVERYTHING. with unlimited energy, sure.
But a ROBOT is highly power inefficient.
Human beings do all that they do on 40watts / hr. A modern playstation is 200-300watts.
EVERYTHING our economy "purports" to do, comes at a power budget. It can not escape physics.
The most irrational aspect is the PRICE of OIL. If a barrel of oil is worth 5 years of HUMAN physical Labor, WHY IS IT $60, or $100, or $200, or $10,000.
Why is it not $1,000,000. IN FACT, that SHOULD BE the price of oil.
So what is happening is, the allocation structure at the top, decides simply to maximize BURN RATE.
The Money structure in GDP, is that rate.
It's not a rate of Wealth Generation or Wealth Storage. GDP is the BURN RATE of FUEL.
This coupled with the fact that there IS NO GREEN ENERGY, all the machinery in solar/wind are simply conduits made from AND to FOSSIL FUELS, Coal, Oil, Gas, Coal, Oil, Gas.
Nature cracked the code, it is beyond anything else, the most POWER EFFICIENT, the natural systems does all that it does @ EXTREMELY low wattage, ALMOST no waste heat.
How much waste heat does a ROBOT produce, or an electric car, electric bus, electric tooth brush.
This is not to be against mechanization, But one must understand the LIMITS of What It Can Do, and the VERY FINITE Budget of energy available in the Time-Span of Civilization.
Nature can operate in Geological-Time, Human Civilization CAN NOT.