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Kiran's avatar

"Infrequent and small gains over the status quo will not even sustain things as they are. We cannot tax our way to utopia, we cannot political theater our way to a better world. A great future will not be discovered in a spreadsheet or a shallow expected value calculation. The end of history is not coming to save us. "

My favorite bit here: we can't increment our way to the future by playing small :)

Nice piece!

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Melon Usk - e/uto's avatar

Yep, modeling ultimate futures (billions of years from now) is possible, we were doing it for 3 years plus and got surprisingly many extremely useful results

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victor's avatar

Manus, Eros, Techne.

May human imagination light the stars.

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Adam's avatar

Wow, this is so good.

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