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How Billionaires Plan To Escape The World They've Destroyed

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The Capitalist Presumption of Eternal Expansion

Nick Bostrom, this Oxford philosopher who has said, in fact, I think argued, because they're kind of strict utilitarian who believe in value maximization. They say there's going to be so much more value in the, in the future that climate change doesn't matter compared to all of the pleasure units experienced by digital people. So just as Francis Bacon quantified everything in reality and if it couldn't be quantified, it wasn't real, these digital guys, they quantize everything in reality. And if it's quantized, then that's what matters. If it's not quantized, it's not pain and suffering and all it's hard to kind of quantize

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