Why does someone who writes great sci-fi suddenly have social capital to weigh in on industry and politics, two things firmly outside of his wheelhouse?
How absolutely dare someone comment about the perceived impact of their work?
but at what point did our hatred of capitalists (note: I don’t hate capitalists) decide to overshadow our, you know, lifelong lust for the stars?
* pauses sentence to perform a quick act of fellatio *
Every time I read a technologist’s screed against Musk or Bezos or Zuckerberg (three people whose combined lifetime works do not even scratch a fraction of the economic value incinerated by the US military in 40 weeks) all I can see is sour grapes and ad hominem.
Maybe take off your Musk-sperm-tinted glasses then?
These people did not create nor perpetuate the attributes of the dystopia you claim to reside in (that was the CIA). (It’s also not actually a dystopia, or anything resembling one; ask any of the two billion people lifted out of dirt poverty (largely due to technology!) in the last three decades.)
No no no, it wasn’t a system of misaligned incentives and lack of accounting of negative externalities that has created the dystopic world we live in today, it was the CIA! Wait, it’s not actually a dystopia!
The old planet will go to hell in its own way from its own inhabitants. I’d rather live in space where it’s safer. (Also, how cool would it be to escape before Earth is finally fully conquered? This would mean that humans as a species successfully avoid a total hierarchy.)
The best part about Mars? There is no racism and bigotry, as when we open our mouth to say anything, or signal anything to another human our productivity collars give us a big shock (for which we also get billed, Praised Be To Musk) to keep us focused on the task at hand. Ouch, back to cleaning the air purification scrubbers.
You see my beany friend: you may die in space from radiation, freezing, cooking, air leaks, malnutrition, weird gravity effects on growth and maintenance of the human body, blood clots, disease, high velocity debris impacts, various and sundry systems failures and so on.
But the thing you don’t appreciate is rather telling! In a SpaceX aMartheid hab dome there are no black people.
I’m pretty sure that’s an attempt at humor, the implication being that wars and natural disasters will soon make life on earth fraught with danger or something?
I have nothing interesting to say about the article, but I got a kick out of what orange site thinks:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38221178
How absolutely dare someone comment about the perceived impact of their work?
* pauses sentence to perform a quick act of fellatio *
Maybe take off your Musk-sperm-tinted glasses then?
No no no, it wasn’t a system of misaligned incentives and lack of accounting of negative externalities that has created the dystopic world we live in today, it was the CIA! Wait, it’s not actually a dystopia!
[The forces that are destroying the planet]
[The people trying to get to space]
They’re the same picture.
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The ultimate white flight.
The best part about Mars? There is no racism and bigotry, as when we open our mouth to say anything, or signal anything to another human our productivity collars give us a big shock (for which we also get billed, Praised Be To Musk) to keep us focused on the task at hand. Ouch, back to cleaning the air purification scrubbers.
mmm delicious radiation
You see my beany friend: you may die in space from radiation, freezing, cooking, air leaks, malnutrition, weird gravity effects on growth and maintenance of the human body, blood clots, disease, high velocity debris impacts, various and sundry systems failures and so on.
But the thing you don’t appreciate is rather telling! In a SpaceX aMartheid hab dome there are no black people.
I’m pretty sure that’s an attempt at humor, the implication being that wars and natural disasters will soon make life on earth fraught with danger or something?
Like there will not be wars between the amazon cylinder and starbucks mars base.
Good, we feel the same way about that.
What kind of unhinged Francis Bacon painting of a “hierarchy” does this fucker have in mind?
Oh jeez I recognize that username. Dude has bad takes even for HN.
That said, HN in general has terrible taste in SF