It starts well, and then it shows a fundamental problem: not everyone agrees on what a good quest is.
The first image shows a graph where the best quest is "Colony on Mars". It goes on with:
> The quintessential example of successful founders using their social capital for good are the billionaire space cowboys — Musk, Branson, and Bezos.
This to me is complete nonsense. The best quest would be "Survive on Earth", and the resources put into going to Mars are actually counter-productive in that sense. The modern space business is accelerating our big problems on Earth, which are biodiversity loss, climate change, and energy (all of which have a single common cause: abundant energy and our use of it).
Yes, Silicon Valley faces a crisis of nonsense, I agree. But the first step would be to realize what a good quest is. It feels like it should not be too hard (our entire civilization may well collapse in less time than it took to go from the space shuttle to SpaceX), but obviously it's not clear at all.
The first image shows a graph where the best quest is "Colony on Mars". It goes on with:
> The quintessential example of successful founders using their social capital for good are the billionaire space cowboys — Musk, Branson, and Bezos.
This to me is complete nonsense. The best quest would be "Survive on Earth", and the resources put into going to Mars are actually counter-productive in that sense. The modern space business is accelerating our big problems on Earth, which are biodiversity loss, climate change, and energy (all of which have a single common cause: abundant energy and our use of it).
Yes, Silicon Valley faces a crisis of nonsense, I agree. But the first step would be to realize what a good quest is. It feels like it should not be too hard (our entire civilization may well collapse in less time than it took to go from the space shuttle to SpaceX), but obviously it's not clear at all.