“most people are irrational, hypocritical and selfish, if you try and tell them they shoot the messenger, and if you try and do anything you bear all the costs, internalize only tiny fractions of the value created if you succeed, and you almost certainly fail to have an effect anyway. And by the way the future is an impending train wreck”
Maybe it will all be OK. Maybe the trains fly past each other on separate tracks. We don’t know. There sure as hell isn’t a driver though. All the inside-view evidence points to bad things,with the exception that Big Worlds could turn out nicely. Or horribly.
Upvoted for the excellent summary!
I’m curious about the “future is an impending train wreck” part. That doesn’t seem particularly accurate to me.
Maybe it will all be OK. Maybe the trains fly past each other on separate tracks. We don’t know. There sure as hell isn’t a driver though. All the inside-view evidence points to bad things,with the exception that Big Worlds could turn out nicely. Or horribly.
Perhaps try this one: The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves