Progressive society breeds this kind of delusional thinking in dozens of directions simultaneously. Even if you reject most--
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-- a surprising number of people are tricked by at least 1 or 2
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In this post I hit robotic unemployment, interstellar colonization, and cryonics
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Robotic unemployment came up when
@Logo_Daedalus was attaqin the poverty of Chapo's Fully-Automated Luxury Communism -
(Even assuming you agree that FALC is a fairly dreary telos for man, the bad economics underlying FALC are ridiculous in se)
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I won't mention any discussions I've seen about cryonics. I don't want to have to mute six dozen ppl
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I've seen everyone from
@RichardBSpencer to @goethoevsky enthuse about space colonies, but I think they mean exploration, not -
--y'know, Section 8 at relativistic speeds. But overpopulation causing Earth to become "too small" for us = NASA boilerplate
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Wait, this was you? And you're assuming space colonization is necessarily interstellar?
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no, if you read the post you'll see I don't think the same objections apply to colonization of our solar system
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(Although I do think cost is high enough that terrestrial remedies for overpopulation will likely always be better)
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That cost point could very easily shift if the Human Disease (I mean that positively) gets to access space resources.
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Not in the near term of course, but there may be a point when the majority of humankind lives on portable real estate.
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Possibly; but if they're already living residentially on artificial satellites, any motive to leave isn't demographic
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1. cheap passage to orbit 2. cheap prefab habitats 3. demographic safety valve neither as crazy as relativistic travel
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