Please expand on “Currently the most serious threat to the stability of American society is the culture war”, and provide some reasoning for “stability” being a driver of producing beneficial technology.
I dispute (or perhaps just don’t understand) both premises. I also am not sure if you mean “end the culture war” or “win the culture war for my side”. Is surrendering your recommended course of action?
I live in Berkeley, where there are literally armed gangs fighting each other in the streets.
Stability isn’t intrinsically valuable. The point is that we know our current civilizational formula is a pretty good one for innovation and most others aren’t, so we should stick to the current formula more or less.
My recommendation is a political ceasefire. Even if we could just decrease the volume of partisan hate speech, without solving any actual problems, that seems like it would have a lot of benefits.
Please expand on “Currently the most serious threat to the stability of American society is the culture war”, and provide some reasoning for “stability” being a driver of producing beneficial technology.
I dispute (or perhaps just don’t understand) both premises. I also am not sure if you mean “end the culture war” or “win the culture war for my side”. Is surrendering your recommended course of action?
I live in Berkeley, where there are literally armed gangs fighting each other in the streets.
Stability isn’t intrinsically valuable. The point is that we know our current civilizational formula is a pretty good one for innovation and most others aren’t, so we should stick to the current formula more or less.
My recommendation is a political ceasefire. Even if we could just decrease the volume of partisan hate speech, without solving any actual problems, that seems like it would have a lot of benefits.
More like one armed gang, and a group of people who have finally had enough and decided to stand up for themselves.