From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rafal@smigrodzki.org)
Date: Fri Apr 18 2003 - 14:30:36 MDT
Damien Sullivan wrote:
>
> "In the long run we are all dead." Possibly not true if a Singularity
> actually happens, but people are concerned with having fair and
> decent lives in the short run. Even if more people believed the
> Singularity was a possiblity it can't be called a certainty, and thus
> isn't worth a "max the growth rate, damn the consequences" attitude.
### Yes, seeing everything in the short run is a problem with humans. As we
become immortal, this will be even more acute, since the effects of
short-sighted greed (the cause of productivity-destroying redistribution)
will harm the same persons who indulge in it, and not just the next
generation. Some of those who allowed the National Debt to balloon during
the Reagan era will have to live with it forever.
This is one more reason to become something close to a libertarian, if you
hope to live forever. Other attitudes are too bad for you in the long run.
Rafal
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