“While it is easy to be pessimistic if you compare today to utopia, a much better perspective is to look at yesterday and see how far we’ve come in our journey to lift everyone from poverty.”
It’s easy to be pessimistic if we do the rational thing, and look at where we’re going next.
There is exactly no chance that we can keep nuclear weapons around forever and never use them. We don’t have the slightest idea of how to get rid of these weapons. And so we’ve decided to stop thinking about it.
Consider the man who has a loaded gun in his mouth, and is so bored by the gun that he’s rarely interested in discussing it. Would you consider this man rational? Would you hand him another gun, or give him more power of any kind? Or would you dial 911 for an emergency intervention?
This is the species which Thiel and other 19th century thinkers want to give ever more power at an ever accelerating rate. They’re insane. Just like the rest of us.
“While it is easy to be pessimistic if you compare today to utopia, a much better perspective is to look at yesterday and see how far we’ve come in our journey to lift everyone from poverty.”
It’s easy to be pessimistic if we do the rational thing, and look at where we’re going next.
There is exactly no chance that we can keep nuclear weapons around forever and never use them. We don’t have the slightest idea of how to get rid of these weapons. And so we’ve decided to stop thinking about it.
Consider the man who has a loaded gun in his mouth, and is so bored by the gun that he’s rarely interested in discussing it. Would you consider this man rational? Would you hand him another gun, or give him more power of any kind? Or would you dial 911 for an emergency intervention?
This is the species which Thiel and other 19th century thinkers want to give ever more power at an ever accelerating rate. They’re insane. Just like the rest of us.