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Given the visceral intensity of this effect, it seems like the best hope for world peace or at least the continued survival of the human race is to send as many

Given the visceral intensity of this effect, it seems like the best hope for world peace or at least the continued survival of the human race is to send as many people into space as possible as soon as possible, starting with world leaders

09bjb 5y ago
Or, you know, legalize the hundreds of psychedelic plants that grow like weeds all over the world that have the same effect at an imperceptibly small fraction of the economic and environmental cost... Anecdote featuring both: https://boingboing.net/2019/04/08/stewart-brand-talks-about-the.html https://boingboing.net/2019/04/08/stewart-brand-talks-about-... (Stewart Brand founded the Long Now Foundation)
- wly_cdgr 5y ago
  Sure, why not both
- motoboi 5y ago
  Given that Stewart Brand is not himself an astronaut I suppose he has zero experience with overview effect and as such, cannot really vouch for the hypothesis that overview effect is similar to psychedelic experiences.
kevin_thibedeau 5y ago
Along with the telephone sanitizers.
poetaster 5y ago
And leave them up there.