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Antipodal Gray
@0xGray
This is definitely happening - but more and more I’m finding my politics realigning around a single question: what preserves geopolitical stability long enough for us to get off planet and reach existential security? If this achieves that then so be it, if not then something else
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mattparlmer 🪐 🌷
@mattparlmer
Their plan is literally partystate Sinification of Anglosphere politics and they aren't even bothering to mask that anymore twitter.com/NicoleGoodkind…
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Antipodal Gray
@0xGray
Once we’ve exited and the futures secure - we can leave these petty empires and their authoritarian managerial class in the gravity well they’re so desperate to rule
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mattparlmer 🪐 🌷
@mattparlmer
It's incapable of achieving that though, it's hegemonic and totalitarian in an environment where the conditions for hegemony of any kind are evaporating rapidly It's shaped wrong for the problem
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Antipodal Gray
@0xGray
Oof I suspect you are correct - but a dissolution of conditions for the continuation of some centres of hegemony on a single planet pre-existential security strikes me as an unimaginably dicey situation to be in. An explosion of dice rollers with catastrophic tech in their hands
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@meanderingexile
hmmm honestly, same goal, but I'm increasingly less concerned about stability and more about repression and stagnation
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@smchatter1
There is no realistic way to live off planet without mastering nuclear energy generation, extending life, managing planetary climate, and programming validatable AI. There is no planet suitable anywhere near close enough and living in space in zero G is even worse.
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(((Mike Rubinstein)))
@hyloguy
The cost of physically getting off-planet to somewhere sustainable is so high that the most expedient route to existential security, in the meantime at least, might be transhumanism. Make backup copies of human consciousness, and store them on satellites and deep underground.
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