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1 billion new people, but no more mouths to feed. Yet another ChatGPT post.
One way to think about technology is that it is a mechanism for lowering the cost of intelligence. Consider what it took to write a book in the 14th century. First you needed paper. Here’s a description from John Horner’s Linen Trade of Europe (which I found here on the University of Iowa’s website