[bee_rider]

I want to quibble about the idea that “the world isn’t a fragile place,” in the sense that I’m very open to the idea that the conditions for humans to thrive happily might be pretty fragile and we need to keep protect them. It’s just—the bar of “civilization is doomed” is incredibly high.

I mean medieval Europe had civilization, it wasn’t a very pleasant one for lots of the people in it, but it was a civilization. There are lots of outcomes we’d like to prevent before we get to “civilization is doomed.”