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Tim Tyler's avatar

Malthusian models hold for any material resource. The basic idea is that resources (at best) expand according to t cubed - as a population expands as fast as it can into a 3D space.

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The Malthusian model holds because the limiting factor of production was land. Thus all rents accrue to land. Everything else is paid subsistence.

Its not clear what the limiting factor of production here. I would think its the EM blueprint. If I my descendent EMs have property rights over that blueprint then they should the limiting factor of production and all rents should accrue to them.

Of course in good brain designs will capture vastly more rents than bad brain designs. On the other hand they may come to dominate all EMs

I actually think the solution is extremely sensitive to the allocation of property rights.

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