Graydon on Nostr: This breaks down hard when it starts being about anything existential; once it's ...
This breaks down hard when it starts being about anything existential; once it's existential, it's about outcomes, and only about outcomes. Whatever you need to do, you do.
Not being enslaved is an existential concern. Climate collapse is an existential concern. Pro-plague policies are an existential concern. Preventing genocide is an existential concern.
When people start using the processes of civilization to enact existential threats, the utility of civilization fails. (well, has failed.)
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