Bostrom

Just about to leave Europe and get back to my normal life and post-Spring Break duties. And no, I didn’t randomly find anyone in De Jaren, but those who stayed at Drift until 3 AM and then adjourned to house parties later (I presume) would be unlikely to be out on a drippy Sunday morning like I was.

In Collapse V I was just reading the article by NICK BOSTROM. I always enjoy Bostrom’s work: sensible yet imaginative reflections on the future of the human race, or lack thereof. He doesn’t play the cynical pessimism card for easy points, but he’s also no pollyanna.

The article now in question is about how the discovery of any traces of life on mars would be abd news for us indeed. I was going to explain whym but my credit on this machine is about to run out and it’s an incredible pain to buy new credit the way the place has been remodelled. So, read Collapse and find out for yourself.