The Precautionary Principle was invented to prevent the large-scale deployment of civilian nuclear power, perhaps the most catastrophic mistake in Western society in my lifetime.
great point. On the other hand it's great the ZAs dismantled theirs
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technology opens the space
The major technological advances of the last 20 years have been single-mindedly devoted to capturing attention and directing it towards consumption, rather than production
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We believe in what the Greeks called eudaimonia through arete – flourishing through excellence.
Finally some virtue. What about the golden mean? That's also in chinese & indian wisdom
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We believe in embracing variance, in increasing interestingness.
Let's hope we don't trigger X-risk
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We believe in local knowledge, the people with actual information making decisions, not in playing God.
Well that's a relief. What's the plan to prevent this from happening like the last N+1 times? More assertions?
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the lightning works for us.
No fear of God
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Undertaking the Hero's Journey, rebelling against the status quo, mapping uncharted territory, conquering dragons, and bringing home the spoils for our community.
By building B2B SaaS
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more people
Depends on what kind of people
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All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good.
Damn right
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Pencils are actually quite technologically complex and difficult to manufacture, and yet nobody gets mad if you borrow a pencil and fail to return it. We should make the same true of all physical goods.
There will always be a frontier
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We believe the measure of abundance is falling prices
Extremely Chinese take
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The socialist USSR was far worse for the natural environment than the capitalist US.
I'm going to need you to quantify that, chief
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1973, President Richard Nixon called for Project Independence, the construction of 1,000 nuclear power plants by the year 2000, to achieve complete US energy independence. Nixon was right; we didn't build the plants then, but we can now, anytime we decide we want to.
Hell yeah let's go
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as more smart people around the world are recruited into the techno-capital machine
No mention of "intelligence black hole" fertility effect of cities
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The techno-capital machine works for us. All the machines work for us.
Assertion cannot stop a hurricane, nor bold words a raging bull. Have you no fear of God or Nature?
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anti-human
OK so I guess Nick Land was just good for name dropping then.
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Markets are the ultimate infinite game.
Zero mention of the obvious problems with market failure or dysfunction, Zero mention of how markets are greedy (literally) algorithms often misaligned with long-term incentives
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human wants and needs are infinite
Materiality is the wrong infinite -- see Wooton, "Power, Pleasure, and Profit, insatiable appetites from Machiavelli to Madison"
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We believe central planning is a doom loop
Too libertarian -- the problem in communist societies is not about centralization but about lack of feedback and about the spiritual character of socialism as based in resentment
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Give us a real world problem, and we can invent technology that will solve it.
This is just not how technology works. “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." - Ford Also many solutions in search of problems
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We had a problem of isolation, so we invented the Internet
ironic
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growth is progress
Progress often entails growth, but growth is not progress. The ideology of a cancer.
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grow or die
Usually hear "MOVE or die". There's a difference. Also, Turtles are also functionally immortal and reach growth limits.
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Techno-Optimists
This is like being "Sex Positive"/"Sex Negative". Or being on "Team Nurture" or "Team Nature". It's a simplistic, team-based narrative. Every reasonable person likes SOME technology. It's just a question of which technology and how it's used.
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- Sep 2020
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www.paulgraham.com www.paulgraham.com
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Precision and correctness are like opposing forces.
sometimes, I guess
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