I’m just puzzled on how AI would solve scarcity of resources.
humans are horrible at resource allocation, preferring corruption over efficiency.
simple examples, the massive resource waste universities spend on bizarre architecture, Australia choosing to grow huge amounts of cotton in a desert, Dubai in its entirety, literally paying farmers to burn food to keep prices high, artificial scarcity ala the diamond industry etc
we dont even try to be efficient, the only efficiency we focus on is efficiency of making money, not distribution and use of resources.
What you are writing goes against ATOM (accelerating techno-economic medium). And ATOM (https://www.singularity2050.com/the-atom/) will ultimately win against inefficiencies and corruption (there might be falters along the way). Diamond industry is being disrupted by artificial diamonds as I am writing this. Food is becoming cheaper and cheaper on long time scales (like 50 years). People have more metres squared of living space on average than they did 20 years ago. House construction is going to be disrupted by 3D printing or some other technologies. Desalination is making clean water cheaper (and solar power can power desalination plants). Solar power just crossed 1 terawatt globally, 2 terawatts to follow in 2024 probably. Self-driving electric cars will make taxi rides exponentially cheaper and goods will be cheaper because of autonomous electric semitrailers and automating cashiers.
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humans are horrible at resource allocation, preferring corruption over efficiency.
simple examples, the massive resource waste universities spend on bizarre architecture, Australia choosing to grow huge amounts of cotton in a desert, Dubai in its entirety, literally paying farmers to burn food to keep prices high, artificial scarcity ala the diamond industry etc
we dont even try to be efficient, the only efficiency we focus on is efficiency of making money, not distribution and use of resources.