Comment of the day

"Bottom line: meat’s an unacceptably inefficient substrate for future humanity."

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Context? Paraphrased: to avoid the upcoming population bomb, we need to develop the technology to upload human minds onto some kind of über-server, or learn to photosynthesize. "Meat," and that is to say consumed meat and body mass, is too inefficiently fed, transported and kept warm/cool to allow a population of 100 billion and beyond.

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