High-Dimensional Foraging - by Robin Hanson

Me in 2018: Spaceship Earth is in fact a story of a brave crew risking much to explore a strange new territory. But the space we explore is more cultural than physical. … The industrial era … moved us into new uncharted cultural territory. … resulted in large and rapid changes to our culture and social organization. … often entangled with externalities, coordination failures, and other reasons to doubt their net value. So humanity continues to venture out into new untried and risky cultural spaces, via changes to cultural conditions with which we don’t have much experience, and which thus risk disaster and destruction. The good crew of Spaceship Earth should carefully weigh these risks when considering where and how fast to venture. (More) Me in 2023: space of dimension D=1024, plus one time dimension. … have almost no interiors; they are almost all surface … atoms couple much more strongly to photons … most atom bonding comes from nearly right angle covalent bonds. Which if they form

Me in 2018: Spaceship Earth is in fact a story of a brave crew risking much to explore a strange new territory. But the space we explore is more cultural than physical. … The industrial era … moved us into new uncharted cultural territory. … resulted in large and rapid changes to our culture and social organization. … often entangled with externalities, coordination failures, and other reasons to doubt their net value. So humanity continues to venture out into new untried and risky cultural spaces, via changes to cultural conditions with which we don’t have much experience, and which thus risk