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Re: Most life on Earth is dormant, after pulling an 'emergency brake'

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Post by shiroiushi » Mon, Jun 10, 2024, 12:27 AM UTC

lukan wrote: post #43

kolinko wrote: post #41

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You could have multiple failsafes, and after a part of them fail, you dehibernate automatically. We have systems that work well with such approach - planes being the most notable example - multiple redundancies, and when sth critical fails, you land asap. Works most of the time.

And then you wake up on the moon in a lava tube too early with a partly failing system and hope that everything else still somewhat works? With current technology level I definitely would rather bet on humans.

Looking at current human society, I don't think that's a very good bet.

If you wake up too early in a lava tube on the Moon, you then use the tools and spare parts you hopefully were smart enough to pack and repair your cryo-pod and then go back to sleep.

Re: Most life on Earth is dormant, after pulling an 'emergency brake'

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Post by NilMostChill » Sun, Jun 16, 2024, 5:22 AM UTC

astrange wrote: post #248

NilMostChill wrote: post #246

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Admittedly the original intended purpose of the stock market might not have been control but that's certainly a big feature of it now. Unless you are already ultra wealthy there is little to gain from individuals entering the stock market directly. It's a vehicle for those with power and/or money to gain more power/money by siphoning it from everyone who isn't them. Sure, some people make money, in the same way peopl…

> there is little to gain from individuals entering the stock market directly. There is approximately 8% a year to gain from entering it. Just buy VTSAX.

Fair enough, that is on me.

What i actually meant was there is little to gain for individuals who aren't already relatively wealthy.

For those living at or below the poverty line, 8% of nothing is nothing.

It isn't until you get to those who can afford to lock up reasonable sums of money for multiple years to benefit practically from that 8%.

Re: Most life on Earth is dormant, after pulling an 'emergency brake'

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Post by Phiwise_ » Tue, Jun 18, 2024, 5:53 AM UTC

mvc wrote: post #227

Phiwise_ wrote: post #223

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Are the proles in your metaphor also capable of indefinitely suspending half of all their starvation-level resource consumption? Are they doing it as stochastic insurance against a population-level extinction event, which they are capable of recovering from? This is a mind-numbingly poor extension of this article's actual contents.

Probably not. Which is why the rest of the population should fund their (very modest) consumption until they're ready to be productive again rather than force them into some risky low paid job like delivering pizzas on a push bike so they can generate profits for investors who use those profits to heat their swimming pools and cool down their massive houses. Or lately plough into AI planet heating credits. The popula…

I don't follow. You agree these people are nothing like the bacteria in the story... and that's why they should be treated like them? And also you need to relay your dislike heated swimming pools I guess?