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Ernest Prabhakar's avatar

> If a new technology is sufficiently impactful, the battle with degrowthers and incumbents will be intense, and we need to understand exactly what it will take to win. 

I agree 100%. That said, I’m a huge fan of “loving your enemies to death.” Degrowth gained traction because pro-growth advocates used that the virtues of growth as a “get out of jail free card” to avoid internalizing all the externalities of growth -- especially the loss of status due to the inevitable unequal outcomes.

The way to win that battle is precisely to steelman and out-empathize with the degrowthers -- NOT try to bury them in facts. That can be excruciating-- but I believe in you @packy. :-)

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Dwight Gilbert Jones's avatar

It is indeed time to embrace nuclear power in toto. One thing I pursue, which I don't see anywhere else, is successive life cycles. Why are we to ignore the possibility of extending our own life franchises while celebrating the glories of what are 3rd person advances, the extinguishing of our human franchise just taken for granted? Biobanks and maturing ectogenesis tech promise to keep our futures open to more childhood, youth and romance- are these not something to dream about as well?

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