Please forgive my colleague’s brio
A lot of these ideas may seem to
Show a lot of quants and weirdos
Who are rather lost in math (with lots of zeroes!)
But take it back to foremost principles
Do we know what a person is, you know?
Consider small and distant minds
Both in spacetime an’ individuals
Accelerate and tesselate
Or end all races’ genetic fate
Both seem in expected case
A little bit meth-headed, ay’?
But common sense has lost its head—it’s almost dead
And often tends to problems when
Denial bent and bias-ed
To Universal Darwin ends
Not so good for long-end bets
...Or altruists
We’re selfish gene machines and see
We block our ears from hearing people’s screams
Going by at streaming speeds through teeming farming factories
It’s sad to see
Market forces aren’t so awesome
When they don’t consider loss to
Common lots and logs and oughts-to’s
To those who mostly bear the costs of
Them
So let’s super-cooperate and opt to stay
On top of all things tossed our way
Awesome, great—but how do we best operate?
(Vinding’s sure got lots to say...)
But I’ve run long
So to all good-bye
I’m off to shut-up
And multiply!
Please forgive my colleague’s brio
A lot of these ideas may seem to
Show a lot of quants and weirdos
Who are rather lost in math (with lots of zeroes!)
But take it back to foremost principles
Do we know what a person is, you know?
Consider small and distant minds
Both in spacetime an’ individuals
Accelerate and tesselate
Or end all races’ genetic fate
Both seem in expected case
A little bit meth-headed, ay’?
But common sense has lost its head—it’s almost dead
And often tends to problems when
Denial bent and bias-ed
To Universal Darwin ends
Not so good for long-end bets
...Or altruists
We’re selfish gene machines and see
We block our ears from hearing people’s screams
Going by at streaming speeds through teeming farming factories
It’s sad to see
Market forces aren’t so awesome
When they don’t consider loss to
Common lots and logs and oughts-to’s
To those who mostly bear the costs of
Them
So let’s super-cooperate and opt to stay
On top of all things tossed our way
Awesome, great—but how do we best operate?
(Vinding’s sure got lots to say...)
But I’ve run long
So to all good-bye
I’m off to shut-up
And multiply!