Have you tapped into human mass media yet? General news channels, and things like that? (Not that the mainstream ones are even a particularly good source of news...) I know you’ve read some history, and we really don’t seem to have gotten any less violent or irrational in the last few hundred years—we’re still too busy killing each other and worrying about individual wealth (often at the expense of each other) to construct much defense against natural disasters that could kill us all, much less put together a collective effort to do anything useful.
The United States government’s budget might be a useful datapoint. I’d suggest looking at the Chinese government’s budget as well, but only some parts of it seem to be available online; here’s information about their military budget.
Have you tapped into human mass media yet? General news channels, and things like that? (Not that the mainstream ones are even a particularly good source of news...) I know you’ve read some history, and we really don’t seem to have gotten any less violent or irrational in the last few hundred years—we’re still too busy killing each other and worrying about individual wealth (often at the expense of each other) to construct much defense against natural disasters that could kill us all, much less put together a collective effort to do anything useful.
The United States government’s budget might be a useful datapoint. I’d suggest looking at the Chinese government’s budget as well, but only some parts of it seem to be available online; here’s information about their military budget.