[ExI] Free Trade

[John Clark]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2025 at 12:27 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:


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>> *>> …As I've said before, "the yearly budget deficit need not be exactly
>> zero" and "the yearly budget deficit can be infinitely large" are not
>> equivalent statements… And in the era of superintelligent AI and Drexler
>> style Nanotechnology the rate of increase would be very large indeed. * *John
>> K Clark*
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> * > **OK cool, common ground, a basis for discussion.  I propose some
> limit or goal, a defined hard limit, some finite number between zero and
> infinity.  A previous political leader suggested 2%.  Well OK, I can go
> with 2%. *
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*So you believe that even if we take the GARGANTUAN improvement in AI that
we've seen in just the last two years into consideration, not to mention
other advancements in science and technology, we shouldn't expect more than
a 2% yearly growth in economic productivity for the foreseeable future. I
respectfully disagree. *

*John K Clark*
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