[extropy-chat] Why Think About the Future Now?

[Robin Hanson]

Why think about the future now?  Why not wait until it gets here to 
think about it?  The best answer would seem to be that there are some 
problems we could better avoid if we start dealing with them now, or 
some opportunities that can be better exploited if we start working 
on them now.    So what are these leverage problems and 
opportunities?   It seems to me that outcome-oriented discussions of 
the future should more consciously be trying to find these leverage 
points, and once found should be focused on them.   Of course those 
who just discuss the future because it is fun can ignore this issue.



Robin Hanson  rhanson at gmu.edu  http://hanson.gmu.edu
Associate Professor of Economics, George Mason University
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