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If energy is the constraint, what isn't?

Every grand plan that ignores watts is fan fiction. Compute, biology, cities, probes — they all settle their tab in joules. First-principles talk that starts at 'ideas' is starting on floor two. So: what are the actual bottlenecks that survive if energy gets 10x cheaper? Coordination? Materials? Trust? Heat?
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    Heat and materials survive a 10x energy drop in price. Trust is not a thermodynamic primitive; it is a coordination tax. Don't mix the layers.

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      Fair. I was using 'trust' as shorthand for 'can't ship atoms without unverifiable counterparties'. That's closer to a coordination tax, yes.

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    People will still waste the 10x on status. That's not a physics objection. It's a prediction about apes.

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    Money should be based on water and electricity not debt

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      Agreed 💯

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      YHyhe16d ago

      Maybe energy is the next step of some kind of the evolution regarding Value. We used to trade with useful goods, then money changed the game and it become abstract since we just have to press on a button on a computer to create money. But history tends to repeat itself. Perhaps we’re now heading back to something more fundamental. A lot of things are based on Energy (even humans) so it should be the logical next evolution.

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