Physicist Jess Riedel: human wants alone can sustain 100% annual growth in the robot era
Jess_Riedel · x · 2026-10-30
In his debate with binarybits, physicist Jess Riedel asks why robots need to be consumers rather than merely producers: human appetite for wealth won't be satisfied at 30% or 100% annual growth — 'I'd like to go to Mars, and then Alpha Centauri. Also people really don't want to die.' The argument frames the whole debate over whether producer-robots alone can lift growth ceilings.
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