• terranoid@lemmy.cafe
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    2 days ago

    ONCE WE BUILD THE TIME MACHINE WE WILL HAVE INFINITE RESOURCES SO INVEST EVERYTHING NOW INTO IT FOREVER

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      7 hours ago

      Haven’t you read that Robin Hanson article about how time travel is obviously impossible because if it were possible temporal arbitrage by time travelers would mean interest rates would be constant?

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        5 hours ago

        It’s easier to imagine the end of causality than the end of capitalism.

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      1 day ago

      Resources that are all trickle up to the Time Machine corporation!!! Only after the Time machine has all the money, it is time to debate the binary choice of UBI vs exterminating you lazy parasites.