This was recently posted in the Server Sky thread: The Political Economy of Very Large Space Projects. The title kind of says it all. Basically, whenever anyone tries to put forward a Very Large Space Project they tend to gloss over the political costs and realities, hence they don’t actually get done. This seems like a pretty clear cut case of Far Mode bias to me. Rationalists trained to recognize and account for this may have a better chance of getting things done.
This was recently posted in the Server Sky thread: The Political Economy of Very Large Space Projects. The title kind of says it all. Basically, whenever anyone tries to put forward a Very Large Space Project they tend to gloss over the political costs and realities, hence they don’t actually get done. This seems like a pretty clear cut case of Far Mode bias to me. Rationalists trained to recognize and account for this may have a better chance of getting things done.