I, Robin, or Michael Vassar could probably think for five minutes and name five major probable-big-win meta-level improvements that society isn't investing in
Are there lists like this about? I think I'd like to read about that sort of stuff.
Today's post, Life's Story Continues was originally published on 21 November 2008. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):
A discussion of some of the classical big steps in the evolution of life, and how they relate to the idea of optimization.
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