Even though each subsequent civilization will have a harder time because of the smaller amount of easily accessible resources, it will have the technologies of previous iterations. For example, coal helped our iteration of civilization a great deal, yet today the cost of solar electricity is lower than that of electricity produced from coal. Therefore, if we can preserve these technologies, our descendants won’t even need coal and oil.
On the other hand, I’m seriously worried about the destruction of ecosystems in the event of a nuclear war, and about global warming, which could undermine agriculture for the next iteration.
The argument that metals might run out is new and unusual to me, thanks.
Proposed interventions: 1. Preserve technologies for descendants on media that don’t degrade over time. This is already being done by The Rosetta Project, Memory of Mankind, and the Arctic World Archive. 2. If we learn how to make asteroids fall to Earth, we should drop more metal-rich asteroids than we need and simply leave them lying there.
People wake up because of nightmares. If one wakes up because of 1 nightmare out of 10, we can claim that if someone never woke up because of nightmares, he never had ≈any nightmare.
Even though each subsequent civilization will have a harder time because of the smaller amount of easily accessible resources, it will have the technologies of previous iterations. For example, coal helped our iteration of civilization a great deal, yet today the cost of solar electricity is lower than that of electricity produced from coal. Therefore, if we can preserve these technologies, our descendants won’t even need coal and oil.
On the other hand, I’m seriously worried about the destruction of ecosystems in the event of a nuclear war, and about global warming, which could undermine agriculture for the next iteration.
The argument that metals might run out is new and unusual to me, thanks.
Proposed interventions: 1. Preserve technologies for descendants on media that don’t degrade over time. This is already being done by The Rosetta Project, Memory of Mankind, and the Arctic World Archive. 2. If we learn how to make asteroids fall to Earth, we should drop more metal-rich asteroids than we need and simply leave them lying there.
People wake up because of nightmares. If one wakes up because of 1 nightmare out of 10, we can claim that if someone never woke up because of nightmares, he never had ≈any nightmare.
Why are you so sure that if insects are conscious, their lives contain more suffering than happiness?