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Let’s ban the metaverse and colonize space

5 August 2022

2:40 AM

5 August 2022

2:40 AM

The way I see it, there are two options for the future: a transplanetary society or a transhuman one.

What got me thinking about this was right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel’s recent interview with Mary Harrington, which she wrote up in UnHerd. As Harrington puts it, Thiel’s diagnosis of modern social ills is not that “progress is inevitably self-destructive,” but that we’ve been making the wrong kind of progress.

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