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Problems are not stakes. This is one reason why tech critics who sermonizing about solving “real problems” completely fail to understand the logic of tech. Tech is about raising the stakes enough to make the hard problems worth solving.
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Believe it or not, the value of something like Twitter is that it raises the stakes, making saving the works from climate disaster a bit more worth it. It does this via a cousin of the having-children kind of stakes. It is mutual involvement stakes.
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The purest example of stakes is storytelling. Stories solve zero problems. Their only function is to pass the time while you decide whether life is worth living. Nobody: Absolutely nobody: Storyteller: “Once upon a time...”
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Crypto is a pure stakes technology So are Mars rovers So are all games Anything that makes creates time out of information. As in, you want to hang around to see how something turns out. Survival for its own sake is insufficient for humans.
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Stakes = costs logic ——— “We must solve climate” “Why?” “How dare you!” Stakes ≠ costs logic ——— “We must solve climate” “Why?” “So my great-grandkid can travel to Pluto/watch the 342nd MCU movie/figure out if P=NP”
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So if you want to help it the vicious and toxic noise... do stuff that helps raise the stakes. Let the costs-obsessed people stay stuck in their stakes = costs flatland. Plenty of people will stop vicious fighting and line up to “solve hard problems” if the stakes are high enough
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I don’t think kids are a solution tbf. They are as much of a metaphysical punt as belief in an afterlife. They don’t actually work very well as stakes. They only supply acute meaning when they’re in danger. Normal times, parents seem no more fulfilled. Possibly less.
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The stake that requires no imagination has always been kids. So going by this the conclusion will be "make more kids".
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"In some countries, most notably Norway and Hungary, parents are actually happier than non-parents." And i live in nz, so, no i'm not wrong :p
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