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Chris Kempes on The Physical Constraints on Life & Evolution
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The Cost of Maintaining Genes
In his novel Bluebeard Kurt Vonnegut said any country larger than Denmark is a damned fool's mistake. I wonder if you think any kind of meaningful analogies can be drawn here that point us in a direction that yields fruitful shifts in economic policy or to maybe take on a humbler goal gives us sort of concrete realistic predictions for what it's going to mean to be a human being in the years to come. Is that absurd breadth there? Yeah, I would say that interconnects with a lot of classic ideas in evolution and ecology.
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