[interroboink]

You might like Jonathan Blow's talk "Preventing the Collapse of Civilization": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kkk

Also, is your name a reference to the Mars trilogy? Reading that now (:

[areoform]

Yes, it is! I even had the chance to talk to Kim Stanley Robinson about it :)

[aspenmayer]

Did this exchange happen on HN, by chance? Color me curious.