Encore une belle faillite du marché : non seulement c'est hideux, mais en plus ce n'est même pas efficient du point de vue du logement d'une population sur une surface donnée : l'urbanisme parisien homogène fait bien mieux en termes de densité de population qu'une construction anarchique de gratte-ciel dans une zone limitée de la ville.

Les candidats «anti-système» sont en réalité presque toujours très arrangeant avec le Capital et ses dogmes, parce que sans son support ils n'arriverait jamais en position éligible. Ce n'est pas pour rien que les candidats populistes qui arrivent au pouvoir en sortant de nulle part viennent toujours de l'extrême droite, ceux de l'extrême gauche n'ont généralement pas leur chance de se présenter s'ils n'ont pas un mouvement citoyen derrière eux qui les porte.

Longtermism is the belief that we should discount short-term harms to real existing human beings—such as human-induced climate change—if it brings us closer to the goal of colonizing the universe, because the needs of trillions of future people who don't actually exist yet obviously outweigh the needs of today's global poor. If you accept that it's our destiny as a species to take over the cosmos, then it follows that longtermist entrepreneurs are perfectly justified in moving fast, breaking things, and ruthlessly maximizing profit extraction, as long as they spend their wealth on colonizing Mars. Which is just the first step on the road to conquering the galaxy and a bunch of other stuff like mind uploading, becoming immortal, creating artificial intelligences to do all the tedious work, resurrecting the dead, and taking over the universe. It posits a destiny for humanity, which of necessity makes it a secular religion. It means that if you don't believe in their plans, then you're some kind of anti-science backsliding reactionary heretic. And if this sounds just slightly insane to you, well, that's probably because you're not Elon Musk or Peter Thiel.

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So I exist in a symbiotic relationship with my readers. They keep buying my books as long as they remain enjoyable. And my publishers keep publishing my books as long as the readers keep buying them. So like other SF writers I've got a financial incentive to write books that readers find enjoyable, and that usually means conforming to their pre-existing biases. Which are rooted in the ideas they absorbed previously. Science fiction as a genre has inertia, and it's hard to get new ideas to stick if they force the readers out of their comfort zone.

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Did you ever wonder why the 21st century feels like we're living in a bad cyberpunk novel from the 1980s?

It's because these guys read those cyberpunk novels and mistook a dystopia for a road map. They're rich enough to bend reality to reflect their desires. But we're not futurists, we're entertainers! We like to spin yarns about the Torment Nexus because it's a cool setting for a noir detective story, not because we think Mark Zuckerberg or Andreesen Horowitz should actually pump several billion dollars into creating it. And that's why I think you should always be wary of SF writers bearing ideas.

Charline Avenel a été nommée rectrice le 24 octobre 2018 par son ancien camarade de promotion, Emmanuel Macron, sur le rapport d’un des meilleurs amis de son ancien supérieur, Édouard Philippe.

Le népotisme…

Ça c'est une pépite !

Also, because many crises that befall premature or very sick babies are in-the-moment emergencies, there may not be time for the preapprovals that insurers often require for expensive interventions. That leaves parents in crisis — or in mourning — tasked with fighting with insurers to have treatment covered.

That was done without considering the standard industrial management practice of rotating managers rapidly and the ever-present profit motive. Industry does things better, period. But perhaps not for a singular enterprise like designing and building nuclear weapons.

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