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See, this is a means-ends category error. Education to do *what*? Staff a space program? Build Neom? Train Peace Corps 2.0 to go solve climate change? Make art? Or worse, “all of the above”? Many of the responses have this issue. You can’t address a vacuum of ends with means.
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This is also why, despite all sorts of issues, I am rooting for Meta’s Metaverse to succeed somehow. Civilizational purpose by fiat. Crypto is just a little too abstract to save this purpose. It will only be exciting to engineers while it is disembodied money-like-substances.
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In summary we must build a Gaudy Spectacle City, like Neom but wiggly instead of straight line, and based on tubes, full of b2b SaaS companies and a Gundam Research Lab. Initial funding required: $50B. I’m available to serve as first mayor. No Retvrners allowed.
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“The reasonable visionary devotes himself to the world’s Real Problems,™ the unreasonable visionary persists in trying to adapt the world to his psychotic fancies. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable visionary.” — with apologies to George Bernard Shaw
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This is a tricky one. I kinda buy argument that it’s just misguided eternalism but there’s a Wowbagger version of longevity I like as a civ goal. We could all live long insulting each other in alphabetical order (without alphabetical order it is just culture war)
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Trolling side quest to this thread
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Religion is the parking lot of meaning-making projects. It’s what you build when you have empty land you don’t have a building project or development capital for
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Shoulda restricted this prompt to 40+. Everybody under 40 has a solid life-stage eigenmotive that’s much too easy to project onto this prompt. You need underpurposed 40+ energy that’s run out of eifenmotives.
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Kids: everything is a learning/play problem in disguise Teens: everything is a friends/dating problem in disguise 20s: everything is a hedonism problem in disguise 30s: everything is a community/ spirituality problem in disguise 40+ you can really worry about Mars programs
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Rick and Morty honorable mention award for this idea
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All my original ones were either taken or dismissed, so here's one from further down my list: Being able to harvest hotter peppers that can break 5M Scoville units and/or increase in global average spice tolerance
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