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