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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I'm in a strange position where I accept Christianity as the best foundation for an economic system, but I'm still quite indifferent about Christian metaphysics.
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Replying to @MimeticValue
Amongst the set of human desires how to know which are virtuous and which are not?
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Those that lead to a sustainable civilization vs those that do not. Basically, human desires are ok because they all reflect some legitimate need of an organism in a complex world, but giving in to them at the wrong moment is not
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Replying to @Plinz @MimeticValue
We should aim to always be in a position to solve the most existentially threatening problems that come our way.
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Replying to @DoqxaScott @MimeticValue
There might be situations where the cost of preparation for a risk is so high that we just have to eat the risk.
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Replying to @Plinz @MimeticValue
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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Replying to @DoqxaScott @MimeticValue
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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Replying to @Plinz @MimeticValue
The right knowledge reduces cost. If we know of a solution that is not feasible due to resource constraints, we don't have the right knowledge yet.
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Another way to conceive this. The right knowledge creates wealth. Wealth that can be deployed to expensive solutions.
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Most individual wealth is accumulated by exploiting knowledge differentials. Areas where most knowledge is common tend to have higher productivity but they reduce the advantage of the more knowledge prone individuals.
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