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Our global catastrophic risks are no longer insignificant, and we're seeing in sharp bas relief the tragedy of the commons effect, that people with wealth and power (and control of industry) aren't looking to mitigate the damage they cause, seeking instead to increase their own gains relentlessly.
Beethoven and Beatles and Michelangelo are all in jeopardy of being lost (assuming we don't go extinct within the next few centuries), so I doubt that anything I do will have the same resilience.
There's a point where I realized the human condition may define its own great filter. To get past the ones we're facing now, we'll have to change our polarized attitudes, and to do that, we'll have to invent some sociological tricks we haven't worked out yet. And damn soon.
Maybe the otters will evolve into the next intelligent social species, and maybe they'll be super cute.