Evidence receipt / uncertainty
Published · transcript-backedAndy Weir: uncertainty
20 Dec 2017 Conversations with Tyler Andy Weir on the Economics of Sci-Fi and Space
“Maybe. I don’t know. But I feel like I’ve got about 50 centuries of human history to back up my point of view, that we just generally make things better.”
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- Andy Weir
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- uncertainty
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- 20 Dec 2017
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…From birth? Maybe. I don’t know. But I feel like I’ve got about 50 centuries of human history to back up my point of view, that we just generally make things better. I mean, if you go back to the year 1000, I’m sure there are people who are mad that you invented the plow, but it turned out to be good. Now, Isaac Asimov, as you know, he came up with his Three Laws of Robotics. No harm, obey, self-preservation, in a strictly hierarchical order. Those date from the 1940s. That’s now a long time ago. We’ve seen a lot more from technology, and, in fact, in robotics. Do you think that you, Andy Weir, today in 2017, could improve on Asimov’s Three Laws?…
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