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etangent on Jan 17, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Gene Cernan has died

That's one of my favorite sci-fi novels and it's eerily ahead of its time IMO. Among many difficult questions, it also deals with

"is it good for humankind to be ruled by an invisible technocratic elite?"

"are we unknowingly increasing long-term existential risk by concerning ourselves first with short-term safety?"

erelde on Jan 17, 2017 [–]

And then what's "good" in relation to "what's good for humankind", what's "humankind". Same process for the second sentence.

I think in some defintion I could argue either side of the Eternity.

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