[extropy-chat] >H pleasure

[Eliezer S. Yudkowsky]

Emlyn wrote:
> 
> Some days, I have great trouble working out how that differs from
> right now. Currently, there seem to be more than enough raw resources
> to go around, with very little of the population working on anything
> related to producing them (eg: 1% of workers are agricultural workers
> in the US, 10% I think are in manufacturing, remembering from "Rise of
> the Creative Class" by Richard Florida).
> 
> Whereas about 60% are service industry, about 30% are creative class
> (I think, my numbers might be out, for instance that all adds up to
> 101%!)

Ask yourself how many of the agriculture workers are merely feeding the 
agriculture workers that merely feeding the creative class and service 
industry, and you have a better picture of how small the economy could 
shrink.

-- 
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence