I do think the answer is tech though. It might feel stupid and tech-bro-ish to those who want answers like “build more trust” or “feed means to the hungry”. I just think those nice outcomes have never in history been built directly. It’s always tech. Make the hard thing easy.
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For eg, the war against U-boats sinking shipping in the Atlantic was basically won by scientists in labs developing codebreaking tech and radar. Lots of examples like that in history. They didn’t risk being killed by torpedoes. Yet their contribution proved decisive.
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I think there's some good, actually-wisdom-requiring tension here. You've got to accept that you're a being worthy of comfort and that some comfort is needed for transcendence. But you can't take out a large moral loan on the possibility you could, in theory, do remarkable good!
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My personal indulgence is 10% to the Against Malaria Foundation - some will do better, others worse. But it does feel relevant to me to make sure I don't accidentally take my comfort as evidence of some special ability to think away world problems. I'm still just a footsoldier.
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This was some theatrical tweeting here in defense of the class divide but your metaphor doesn’t work. In the past, tech innovation created jobs and compensated scientists and thinkers. But monopolizing industry (tech esp) and Friedman model has “scaled” and “patented” us out. 1/2
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If you even look at the complete dissonance between what the tech people are saying (most of them) and what is happening, you realize that these days, anyone above the API is in a bubble that prevents them from seeing solutions. Those who have them but are outside, are not seen.
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