Re: A vision

From: Robin Hanson (rhanson@gmu.edu)
Date: Tue Jul 15 2003 - 17:45:53 MDT

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    At 02:17 PM 7/14/2003 +0200, Anders Sandberg wrote:
    > > ... predator/prey relations will mostly disappear
    > > and be replaced by farmer/farmed or other much more
    > > cooperative relationships. ...
    >
    >This also suggests that there is room for many more organisms
    >since the available resources will be more efficiently utilized

    Yup.

    >One factor which is important when looking at this kind of
    >economized ecology is how complexity grows within an economy.
    >How does new economical niches develop, and how stable are they?

    We probably know near as much about this as about biological
    niches - people have been studying business niches for a long
    time.

    Robin Hanson rhanson@gmu.edu http://hanson.gmu.edu
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