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I think it would be wasteful if after I died they just threw me away rather than having one last good meal with me.

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His point is that people’s obscure preferences for art create scarcity, and we wouldn’t need search and multiplication technology; we’d just all listen to the same government-sponsored radio station because we’d all have the same preferences.But... we already have search and multiplication technology, and we use it every day anyway. Why would we want a radio station instead? I think the effect here really is about numbers. If you have 1.5 billion people connected to the net, to share everything they create, even fringe interests are filled with abundance. An example is pornography and rule 34; no matter what outlandish interest you may have, I'm pretty sure there's not only porn of it, but there's probably more porn of it than you could find time to consume. Maybe I missed the point, but I really see the promised golden age of digital post-scarcity here. And the potential isn't even maximized yet; there are still billions of potential artists and users who're not yet connected.

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