Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Apr 9, 2015Replying to @martingeddes@martingeddes I went the other way, from consequentialist to deontologist. Which is why I am more medium-term sympathetic to #NN than you1
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Apr 9, 2015Replying to @martingeddes@martingeddes @psygnisfive Unsustainable is a FAR weaker accusation than impossibility.3
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Apr 9, 2015Replying to @martingeddes@martingeddes @psygnisfive Impossible things you can't do today. Unsustainable things become impossible tomorrow when scale hits a limit1
Venkatesh Rao@vgrReplying to @vgr@martingeddes @psygnisfive huge difference between today and tomorrow is time for creative options to be thought up.10:37 PM · Apr 9, 2015
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Apr 9, 2015Replying to @martingeddes@martingeddes @psygnisfive Now you're getting religious. You cannot possibly know what *other* creative options might appear tomorrow2
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Apr 9, 2015Replying to @martingeddes@martingeddes @psygnisfive Yup, IOW every actual system ever built as opposed to historical trash cans of Xanadu-Utopias. I'm pragmatic :)1