I would like to know why you don’t think it would make sense to relocate to a place like New Zealand or Australia. My thought is that they demonstrated that they had the will and the functioning government to suppress COVID, and can take advantage of their isolation. You may be able to prevent your family from getting the disease in the US, but then you may have to deal with no electricity or water or fuel if the vital employees are unable or unwilling to show up to work. Australia could likely keep industry functioning conventionally, but even New Zealand might be able to improvise biofuels or go back to animal power.
My top reason for not relocating is that I’m working on preventing this kind of bad outcome, which I think I can do most effectively from Boston.
But even if I were doing work that could be done from anywhere, I don’t think I’d relocate: that only helps in a small fraction of the doomy futures, I think there are also a lot of good futures, and I really like living in Boston.
To be clear, my relocation post was for getting ready to relocate quickly in response to a trigger such as a new infectious, fatal disease being discovered.
No, I don’t think mirror bio is coming sooner.
I would like to know why you don’t think it would make sense to relocate to a place like New Zealand or Australia. My thought is that they demonstrated that they had the will and the functioning government to suppress COVID, and can take advantage of their isolation. You may be able to prevent your family from getting the disease in the US, but then you may have to deal with no electricity or water or fuel if the vital employees are unable or unwilling to show up to work. Australia could likely keep industry functioning conventionally, but even New Zealand might be able to improvise biofuels or go back to animal power.
My top reason for not relocating is that I’m working on preventing this kind of bad outcome, which I think I can do most effectively from Boston.
But even if I were doing work that could be done from anywhere, I don’t think I’d relocate: that only helps in a small fraction of the doomy futures, I think there are also a lot of good futures, and I really like living in Boston.
To be clear, my relocation post was for getting ready to relocate quickly in response to a trigger such as a new infectious, fatal disease being discovered.