[eli_gottlieb]

>I think my view is more that of Silicon Valley/entrepreneur/programmer types. These people (me, etc) want the best long term outcome and will take big actions towards that, even knowing it’ll cause some short term pain.

>I don’t think ‘regular’ people think like that. They generally care more about the people around them, their own pain, their tribes, their cities, etc. (But not at all about trillions of as yet unborn humans.)

And I think that both of you have a very peculiar taste for bullets, since you like biting them so much when there was otherwise no actual need. We can invent cool technologies, colonize space, and have an egalitarian society. In fact, in my view, those things go together: you can't really get a stable multiplanetary civilization going when people are constantly trying to tear out each-other's throats over socioeconomic inequality.