On Tue Oct 14 2014 at 3:09:05 PM Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]> wrote:
> http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/ > 2014/10/the-real-existential-threat.html > > Monday, 13 October 2014 > > The Real Existential Threat > > What is the biggest threat to the world as we know it? > Threat to humans, sure. Threat to the world, don't be presumptuous. The only real threat is a corrupt decision making system. > > Simply, if our human built systems can't make good decisions, our > system will collapse. > Hyperbole. <snips> They are the systems that allow us to adapt to changing circumstance. > The success of these decision making systems are the reason we've been > able to populate every corner of this world and why we are still alive > today. > Human history and pre-history is filled with some terrible (or terribly arbitrary) decisions made by terrible people that were succcessful in terms of the survival of the species. I would even argue that we ended up populating every corner of the world because of innumerable trade offs of short-term survival of the individual or family or tribe over that of global good. And it is this short-term outcome maximization selfishness that has led us to exterminate species and cook the planet. Thaths
