DaFranker comments on Rationality Quotes November 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DaFranker 16 November 2012 03:12:27PM 5 points [-]

If you don't have any asteroids crashing on your planet, there is nothing to do about it.

Sure, in effect, we're not randomly throwing asteroid-cracking missiles out in empty, asteroid-less space.

We're certainly preparing for it and putting in place pre-emptive countermeasures, though, AFAIK.

Japan and Finland have effective strategies for dealing with cultural diversity, namely: Pre-emptively apply social measures to prevent any cultural diversity from reaching critical mass where it starts having social weight.