A space program is the rare kind of organization that can have an organic goal of its own. It’s not an abstract tool that must have a leader’s goal/mission grafted on to be non-nihilistic. Abstract org forms (corps, govts, nonprofits) are pure tools. Necessarily nihilistic.
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Ever wonder why businesses fall prey to shareholder value maximization type nihilism-by-optimization? It’s because they have no natural and organic goals. So if one isn’t grafted on and kept in place by an external force, they start solving for anti-goals like SHM.
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SHM isn’t a goal, it’s what takes over when an internal self-perpetuation motive meets an external extraction motive. It’s the institutional equivalent of careerist status-seeking. Be somebody over do something. Be blue-chip. Be Fortune 100. Be in the S&P.
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My space program will send consultant rovers to Mars. They will advise other rovers on their operations.
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Basic model will be inspection bot. A rover with an inspection camera that will do a round of another rover for $5000 plus travel expenses.
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The program goal will be to maximize distance-and-complexity-weighted mass beyond earth. Distance would have LEO at zero. Complexity = say Kolmogorov complexity of algorithms embodied by a rover, making it worth more than say an equivalent mass of paperclips.
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