Quote from: TPTB_need_war on July 20, 2015, 10:32:02 AM

Quote from: generalizethis on July 18, 2015, 04:57:02 AM

As capitalism marches off the plank of zero marginal costs, what happens to physical value?

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Capitalism is dead and we're all scared shitless so we keep running around the track playing the "remember when?" game.

What replaces this system?...

Answer:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=355212.msg11917056#msg11917056

The zero marginal costs are only in the physical realm. The knowledge component can never be 0 unless you can make entropy reversible and stop time.

What if you could turn off? Stop your time. We can't, at least not in our current state, but an AI could experiment with what happens when time moves forward, but you do not. Could you scale yourself down to a point where there isn't even interactions with or on a subatomic level--to achieve a state of non-movement? Humans tend to think in terms of expansion, but what if AI goes the other way?

Dying (Emily Dickinson)

I heard a fly buzz when I died;
The stillness round my form
Was like the stillness in the air
Between the heaves of storm.

The eyes beside had wrung them dry,
And breaths were gathering sure
For that last onset, when the king
Be witnessed in his power.

I willed my keepsakes, signed away
What portion of me I
Could make assignable,-and then
There interposed a fly,

With blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz,
Between the light and me;
And then the windows failed, and then
I could not see to see.

This is Emily playing with the idea of past, present, and future colliding. Though her future self cannot see beyond the last moment, but maybe that is the real divine state: a point of zero-interaction.