Jordan, consider Ray Kurweil's rebuttal to this argument on YouTube. ExecSum: Humans will switch to working/living more at home, requiring less focus on urban areas and more sprawl into current farmland. Thoughts sir?
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Because people don’t wanna be stuck at home, they wanna go out and interact people, variety is a spice of life, they wanna go shopping and pick items themselves not online, then they wanna go back and meet friends or have drinks on the way
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I guess it’s only a matter of time, even though I have to go to work, I actually like it, I’d be very depressed if I was stuck at home
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Me too man, I'd take a shitty job to get out of the house. Only way I'd be fine is if the VR is so perfect I couldn't tell the difference. So I'm not an early adopter, I'd be a late adopter, like you I'm guessing.
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I agree, that's why I can't wait for self-driving cars too. Humans are terrible drivers, 30,000 people die every year in accidents. Self-driving cars would remove human idiocy, speed up traffic if we have to drive to shitty meetings :)
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We've reached the point where we can go vertical with farming if needed. Or spread over the oceans. Prices might go up but global starvation it less and less likely.
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vertical farming does not work for anything other than high value crops. The only crop where it is currently profitable is weed and some fancy flowers. The only reason we have starvation today is inept governments, there is plenty of food for everyone and more.
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I was speaking to the technical capability of vertical and ocean farming. You are right that current cost/benefit analysis is net negative. But if in the far future the alternative becomes mass starvation that calculus changes. Agreed RE gov't ineptitude.
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There is not going to be mass starvation in the future, population is trending down and productivity on farmland is trending up by over 5% a year.
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There *shouldn't* be mass starvation, but governments have a knack for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. In the end it probably won't matter. Once the singularity hits it's all over but the crying. LOL
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just like baseball there is no crying allowed in a singularity.pic.twitter.com/sGnRlGEQ1N
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At what cost? This is borderline fake news
@HumanProgress. Overpopulation is the number one problem for the planet but no one will deal with it. -
Overpopulation is a myth.https://www.pop.org/debunking-the-myth-of-overpopulation/ …
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That article is full of dodgy statements designed to fool people probably from a religious perspective.
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...and the altered food supply (40% grain oil and grain syrup) which made this population/efficiency possible, triggered the metabolic syndrome epidemic, which drives today’s leading causes of death and ballooning healthcare expenses. Full analysis vs your Kotch propaganda.
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Excellent summary. Spot on. Farmers, scientists, and ag biz rock! We can feed a growing world. I know an Indian dairy scientist who saw the green revolution (and subsequent "white" milk revolution too). He reports it a miracle. Organic fear mongering kills technology. Scary
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How many people can't afford to shop at a market that sells fresh produce like the one in the picture?
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Right, that’s the big lie. The efficiencies were made possible by industrial grain derivatives (corn syrup + grain oil), meat and veggies/fruit have decreased (USDA Food Supply Report). Afford is irrelevant as the food supply dictates what people CAN buy.
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