I think there are three main threats humanity currently faces. (1) nuclear war. In any one year the chances of a serious nuclear war are quite small; however the consequences will be global destruction of human civilisation. For many people under 40, this is a black swan scenario, an event which will take them by… Continue reading Existential Threats
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complexity
Today I was reading about a Stanford University professor called Robert Laughlin who thinks that, in a thousand years, all the carbon that we are mining today will be in the ocean. We will either have mined all the available carbon energy sources or we will have decided to leave them alone. The excess carbon… Continue reading complexity
the end of greed
Recently I read that the Amish (who are descendants of Swiss German emigrants) are an anarchist society. I don’t really agree with that. They maybe have little hierarchy and have limited acceptance of government but they live their lives according to religious dogma. There are some anarchist aspects, I suppose, such as their sense of… Continue reading the end of greed