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What's most interesting to me about this comment is the use of an example of a closed loop environment, despite the fact that _we're already in a closed loop en
by cnity 6y ago
What's most interesting to me about this comment is the use of an example of a closed loop environment, despite the fact that _we're already in a closed loop environment_. We just pretend otherwise with landfill and the convenience of throwing things into a bin.
- yourapostasy 6y agoGlad you saw that. I already treat us as living in a closed loop environment, but very few people share and act upon that sentiment with me, so I find it easier to illustrate by analogy. Generally speaking, our human organizational psychology is extremely vulnerable to the principal agent problem throughout the body of the organization when timelines and scales are larger than an individual can internalize. MEGO is the usual response I get when I speak with most people about timelines exceeding a human lifespan (their human lifespan to be specific), or resource quantities at industrial and global scales. Until we can solve the problem of shifting on the order of 3e8 metric tons of mass off-planet without ruinous side effects, we're really stuck on our cradle world, and should plan (including actively researching how to get off world at that scale) accordingly.