Many folks ask why I am so against consumerism. This is my philosophical response. The mainstream interpretations of both communism and capitalism are wrong. The problem doesn't lay in the ownership of production but in the manipulation of desires of consumers.https://twitter.com/MimeticValue/status/1253064004336906241 …
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Which amounts to allowing the risk to eat us. The biggest cost in dealing with such risks is creating the knowledge about how to deal with them. On the up-side, the journey will deliver countless unforseen benefits of enormous value.
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That's not true. There are few fields of existential risk that require more than a few thousand capable people to study them for a couple generations. That can be much cheaper than to deploy a different global energy supply, or a meteorite destroying orbital laser battery.
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