Instead of 5% here 5% there we should consider a baseline of how much societal effort goes into maintaining cemeteries/necropolises. This differs from society to society, there are choices to be made here, but it’s hard to imagine a civilization without such.
You could be right, although that assumes a rather crude type system on the part of the decisionmakers. Heritage preservation is a thing. It makes up a certain percentage of the GDP, of the workforce, etc etc (these tend to fall in the .3% range, not the 5% you start with). Countries devote a certain percentage of their budget to national heritage however defined (museums, libraries, archeology, monuments, …). Most EU countries mandate, through `polluter pays’ legislation, a line item in the budget for archeological survey/digs for major construction projects with significant land use such as roads and industrial campuses. So there is plenty of precedent. In modern industrial societies this, just as the cemetery expenses or land use, point to a sub-1% range, but well over 0.1%. In other societies this could be considerably higher, think of the societal effort that went into the building of the pyramids. I know, that was 3-5 thousand years ago, but I, for one, am delighted to see Anthropic taking the longer view here.
Instead of 5% here 5% there we should consider a baseline of how much societal effort goes into maintaining cemeteries/necropolises. This differs from society to society, there are choices to be made here, but it’s hard to imagine a civilization without such.
i don’t think this argument is the right type signature to change the minds of the people who would be making this decision.
You could be right, although that assumes a rather crude type system on the part of the decisionmakers. Heritage preservation is a thing. It makes up a certain percentage of the GDP, of the workforce, etc etc (these tend to fall in the .3% range, not the 5% you start with). Countries devote a certain percentage of their budget to national heritage however defined (museums, libraries, archeology, monuments, …). Most EU countries mandate, through `polluter pays’ legislation, a line item in the budget for archeological survey/digs for major construction projects with significant land use such as roads and industrial campuses. So there is plenty of precedent. In modern industrial societies this, just as the cemetery expenses or land use, point to a sub-1% range, but well over 0.1%. In other societies this could be considerably higher, think of the societal effort that went into the building of the pyramids. I know, that was 3-5 thousand years ago, but I, for one, am delighted to see Anthropic taking the longer view here.