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> because real problems are always more complicated than simple, inspirational ideas Colonizing another planet 'is' a real problem? Also, if we can 'just fix
by abledon 5y ago
> because real problems are always more complicated than simple, inspirational ideas
Colonizing another planet 'is' a real problem?
Also, if we can 'just fix Earth' tell us how we convince all nations to come together and sing Kumbaya, put aside our resource differences and disarm all nuclear missiles (I'm looking at you North Korea)
- matmatmatmat 5y agoThat's a silly strawman argument; no one is seriously asking for this.
- randallsquared 5y agoThe point being made by GP is that there are very many reasons why modern civilization on Earth may be shortlived: climate change, biological war (or lab accident!), global thermonuclear war, economic failure modes, AI or AGI, large impact, etc. Fixing any one of these doesn't solve the same problem that redundancy would solve, and some of them require solving seemingly impossible coordination problems.
- patagurbon 5y agoNorth Korea is nowhere close to the major issue there.
- abledon 5y agoya, def not as big as climate change etc.. i just finished lex fridman podcast on north korea so it was on my mind