More from Eric: "the story of what happens when humans get addicted to high levels of broadly distributed stable technology-led growth, and then are denied the ability to continue on that path."pic.twitter.com/c0QlIYHZqR
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Great concept I just learned from @EricRWeinstein —
Embedded Growth Obligation: how fast a structure has to grow in order to maintain its honest positions.
As in, "Many of our institutions have unsustainable EGOs."
I'm surprised this concept doesn't have wider currency.
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It doesn’t have wider currency because so many people’s hopes and plans rely on it being not true.
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true — but i'm surprised it doesn't have wider currency even among our kind of peeps ;)
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It’s a profound concept with important implications.
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@vgr this connects to your recent Life Spirit Distillation vs Personal Growth essay.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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My paraphrasing of this is “we colonized space until we covered the whole planet. Then we started colonizing time. But the future that CAN be mined has by now BEEN mined out...”
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It’s also interesting to see it outside the organizations he lists. To me (this is NOT a popular position...) Intel has started doing this in spades. Every announcement over the past three years has extended the promises forward in time, to the extent that
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