[emteycz]

Consider the last 2000 years. The global market went from nothing to outlandish emperor-level luxuries available to multiple billions of humans + all the stuff that we have that even emperors didn't imagine. I think quintillion times growth in "actual value to humans" is not that off. And thinking about the next 2000 years, I don't see any hard limits there too.

[ben_w]

A quintillion is larger than the ratio of a synaptic refractory period and a human lifetime by a factor of about 1.5 million. Even with my optimism about transhumanism, I’d be very surprised if that was accurate or will ever be.

[emteycz]

It's not about transhumanism, it's simply the (Kardashev) scale of society.