Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
lol, wut
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Phil Cockfield
@pjc
...counter factual universe (that might actually work): Find the equivalent of the modern day J.C. Licklider, give him the equiv ($) of what he was handed when transitioning the space programme from military to NASA, with the same freedoms (aka. "don't fuck with Lick")...and then let something actually work.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
> with the same freedoms It's 2023. Freedom got killed by a thousand bureaucratic paper cuts. https://www.vox.com/2020/4/22/21228469/marc-andreessen-build-government-coronavirus
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Wesley
@degenwes
Ironically environmental protections have been weaponized to prevent building important infrastructure (and I support environment regs) but it is a good example of externalities and unintended consequences
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grant π π© πΈ
@grunt.eth
A good example of externalities was the destruction of every biome near US cities prior to the 1970s
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