I’ll note in passing that the view I’m presenting here reflects a super low degree of cynicism relative to the surrounding memetic environment. I think the surrounding memetic environment says “humans left unstomped tend to create dystopias and/or kill themselves”, whereas I’m like, “nah, you’d need somebody else to kill us; absent that, we’d probably do fine”. (I am not a generic cynic!)
There basically aren’t any natural threats that threaten all humans, once we’ve spread a bit through space. “Entropy” isn’t really a threat, except as a stand-in for “we might not use our resources efficiently, resulting in waste”. (Or I guess “we might not do due diligence in trying to discover novel physics that might grant us unlimited negentropy”.)
Nate evidently disagrees:
There basically aren’t any natural threats that threaten all humans, once we’ve spread a bit through space. “Entropy” isn’t really a threat, except as a stand-in for “we might not use our resources efficiently, resulting in waste”. (Or I guess “we might not do due diligence in trying to discover novel physics that might grant us unlimited negentropy”.)