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Ep: 99 David Deutsch‘s ”The Beginning of Infinity” - a retrospective in 99 minutes

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The Lesson of Easter Ireland

The earth cannot sustain us into the indefinite future. We need more energy, and cheap energy, not less. Nothing is a resource after all, until the knowledge of how to use it as such is discovered. If we have insufficient wealth, when the proverbial asteroid, or even worse, virus eventually does arrive, we will not be sustained by anything else but our wealth. The lesson of easter ireland is that we need to make progress faster.

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