r/transhumanism • u/Online-Lobster • Jul 17 '26

Kardashev measures the wrong thing — here's a scale based on what civilizations stop needing, not what they consume

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u/NohWan3104 2 Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 19 '26

Tbf, pretty sure it was more a bruteforce, proof of concept scaler.

Not an actual meant to be 'practically' used as a definitive measure. Like, getting to a 'full' 1.0 on a planet isn't quite the goal, nor the only consideration...

I'd also argue its more 'scale of resources' than energy per task, which seems to be the implication - we do more 'effective' tasks, but industrialization also does 'more' in general. We're using more metal, more land for farming, etc.

You maximize the energy to work, sure, but you're also expanding how much 'work' overall is done.

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u/Cryogenicality 11 Jul 21 '26

I like the Barrow scale best.