> If you cannot extend your philosophy to the future of civilization, it is a flawed one. I see this attitude in tech a lot and I think it is incorrect, and v

> If you cannot extend your philosophy to the future of civilization, it is a flawed one. I see this attitude in tech a lot and I think it is incorrect, and very harmful. Systems have emergent properties that only exist at certain scales. The best principles for an FTL civilization spanning the universe are not the best principles for present day, and an appeal to claims of first principles is blind to this. The same logic applies to arguments over censorship of large social media companies citing counterpoints involving small, niche internet forms with a few dozen users. Or amazon scale superstores vs. a grocery chain. Or large nations comprising a mix of heterogeneous cultures vs. small, uniform island nations.