2x2: Non-exotic, non-real: hobby crafts like model building. Relaxing and safe. Exotic, non-real: geewhiz tech. Stimulating in a mid way, and politically safe. Non-exotic, real: adult satisfaction, politically safe. Exotic+real: god-feeling, politically destabilizing
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Hm. The change of entropy at least is inevitable. I wonder if a deeper dive into stories like Prometheus or Frankenstein or Westworld might help explore these situations...
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Now I really want to connect these two threads: Also, do
@vgr and@rwang0 know each other?https://twitter.com/xolotl/status/1299780467936305152 … - Show replies
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For most of human history there was basically no change. Society and technology changed on the generation scale, at most. Ancient Egypt was relatively unchanging for 2500 to 5000 years.
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I’m not arguing that the modern era of more rapid change (last few hundred years) is bad or unnatural. I just don’t think it’s quite the default state for things to change constantly.
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But, but... carbon neutrality to resist climate change
is change itself that sounds neutral to some but incendiary to others. So no Green New Deal because it’s change that ends up not changing? Or yes — because it’s change that restores equilibrium?
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I heard your interview in the
@EconTalker podcast. You talked about the idea that social media has increased the available bit transfer rate, and that the ideas in most books produced today aren’t worth the effort it takes to create and propagate them - that we can traffic in 1/ -
interesting ideas so much more quickly now, that all the effort required to produce a book is wasted and could be devoted to generating new ideas through mediums such as this. The obverse of that coin is that interesting ideas float through the ether half-baked. 2/2
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as long as electronics parcels time on scales too femto/googol for contemporary brain it's techart in front of the bourse [no *real* power/politic]
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