[HN Gopher] Welcome to the Subcritical Society (2020)
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Welcome to the Subcritical Society (2020)
Author : mooreds
Score : 22 points
Date : 2022-07-05 13:20 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (skventures.substack.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (skventures.substack.com)
| slowmovintarget wrote:
| tl;dr: Things are changing.
|
| Things are always changing. Sad that this article's primary focus
| is a mission statement to figure out investing strategies.
| FastMonkey wrote:
| It looks like they're venture capitalists, so I won't hold it
| against them!
| ifyoubuildit wrote:
| > Sure, we will see a paroxysm of people fighting the last war,
| much like how we armored commercial airliner cockpits after 9/11.
| In that light, (...)
|
| It's my understanding that this is one of the only actually
| useful things to be done after 9/11. The rest of it was basically
| a cytokine storm that did far more to injure the patient than the
| actual infection ever did.
| bsder wrote:
| > It's my understanding that this is one of the only actually
| useful things to be done after 9/11.
|
| And even adding armored cockpit doors has resulted in a crash
| that nobody could do anything about.
|
| The real change after 9/11 was simply that people _won 't sit
| still during a hijacking_.
|
| _Everything_ else has been security theatre. We could now
| switch back to 1980s-level security, and things would actually
| be more secure than ever.
| mortenjorck wrote:
| "Less than you expect will change in the short term, while more
| than you expect will change in the long term" is probably a good
| heuristic, though certainly imperfect.
|
| I still can't quite wrap my head around the fact that I spent
| five days in a row in an office in mid-March 2020 without the
| slightest sense that it could easily be the last time I or many
| of my colleagues would do so in our careers.
| labrador wrote:
| I've got a good quote to add to the list:
|
| "Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of
| chaos and darkness" - Werner Herzog
|
| This article is pandering to the fears of wealthy investors who
| are confused and overloaded by the rapid changes occurring
| throughout the world right now. They know it's quite likely that
| some of them will lose their money and it's mostly about money
| with these people. Identity is wrapped up with money. Never fear,
| SK Ventures is here ("Subcritical Society" makes it sound
| mysterious and powerful.)
|
| Like many people I am not worried because I don't have a lot to
| lose. Change is normal. Sometimes it happens fast, sometimes it
| happens slow. I am also confident in the belief that life will
| continue on planet Earth with or without humans and I live in a
| country where the chances of starving to death are slim to none,
| so my time on Earth is fairly secure.
| mikewarot wrote:
| We've got another crisis on our hands, this one is slower
| rolling, but I think even more important... the end of cheap easy
| to reach crude oil. The total energy to drill and pump a well is
| ever growing, and the results are lower quantities and quality
| oil. Eventually it won't make sense in terms of energy to drill a
| well.
|
| I worry we don't have the domestic manufacturing capability here
| in the USA to make enough nuclear, solar and wind infrastructure
| to bridge the gap.
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