It is a productivity miracle, just as impressive as Moore's Law

[delichon]

https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1769845137998266434

[floxy]

Three data points doesn't seem like quite enough points to make an interesting-looking trend curve for the man-years per copper ton. Compare to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law#/media/File:Moore'...

[delichon → floxy]

40/.06 is a 667 fold increase in 2K years or 1/3 folds per year, compared to (50,000,000,000/1,000) 50,000,000 fold increase in 50 years is 1 million folds per year. Granted 1 million is bigger than 1/3.

It's still pretty damn impressive. And with AI robotics we may be at the bottom of another such productivity curve.

[delichon]

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/703268/material-wor...