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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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Longevity
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See this guy gets why it’s actually a hard question that can’t be willed away with idealism
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When you take space (universe) exploration off the table… it’s just us …. staring at each other… which we’re already really really good at (TV, Twitter, etc).
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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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