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Published · transcript-backedTyler Cowen: belief
20 Dec 2017 Conversations with Tyler Andy Weir on the Economics of Sci-Fi and Space
“I think we should be more impersonal in terms of how we think about value of human lives.”
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- Tyler Cowen
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- 20 Dec 2017
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Well, now you’ve just . . . Somewhere between those two things is the value of human life versus the value of redwoods. [laughs] Sure. I think we should be more impersonal in terms of how we think about value of human lives. But in individual cases, we so often aren’t. Let me ask you some questions about particular technologies, but feel free to pass if you don’t have an opinion. Especially as it relates to settling the Moon, or maybe Mars (of course that’s harder) — but 3-D printing: Does it play a major role in how you think about this happening, or not? I think 3-D printing is a major technology in manufacturing, in general. So it’s not specific to the space industry. It’s like saying, “Oh, how do you think refining steel affects industry?” It’s like, it affects everything. And so I think 3-D printing is something that will have this omnipresent effect across all aspects of manufacturing, including the space industry.…
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