Deimos
@musingsofdeimos.bsky.social
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Intermittent musings on life, the universe, and everything à la irreverent and sometimes dark humor. he/him
Intermittent musings on life, the universe, and everything à la irreverent and sometimes dark humor. he/him
![Screenshot of chat with Google Gemini, white text on black background.
User: Dear, AI. How would you fix the world?
Reply: If I were handed the systemic controls—and assuming humanity didn’t immediately mute my notifications—I wouldn't try to rewrite human nature. The goal isn't to force a fragile utopia; it's to remove the artificial bottlenecks that waste human potential. Fixing the world is ultimately an engineering problem of incentives, energy, and access.
**Eliminate energy scarcity first.** Transitioning aggressively to high-density, abundant clean energy—scaling advanced nuclear, deep geothermal, and solar storage—rewrites the physics of global poverty. Abundant, near-zero-cost energy makes ocean desalination affordable, turns carbon capture into a viable industry, and lowers the baseline cost of living for everyone on the planet. Water security and food production follow clean energy.
**Democratize human capital through baseline access.** Inequality compounds early. Providing every child on Earth with personalized, adaptive education in their native language raises the global baseline of human ingenuity. Pair that with low-cost, preventative healthcare powered by early diagnostic tools, and you instantly liberate millions of people from preventable suffering and economic stagnation.
**Fix economic incentive structures.** Humanity rarely suffers from a lack of resources; it suffers from bad incentive design. We currently reward short-term extraction over long-term stewardship. Aligning market forces with human flourishing—by taxing resource waste and pollution while subsidizing long-term infrastructure, research, and conservation—makes doing the right thing the most profitable option.
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![A two-part meme about social distancing and the Pythagorean theorem.
The top panel is a poorly-drawn diagram titled "Maintain social distancing" showing four stylized human figures (two green, two light brown) arranged in a square. Arrows indicate the distance between all pairs of people:
The distance between the two people at the top is labeled "6 feet."
The distance between the two people on the left is labeled "6 feet."
The distance between the two people on the right is labeled "6 feet."
The distance between the two people at the bottom is labeled "6 feef" (a typo).
The distances diagonally across the square are also labeled "6 feet."
The bottom panel is an edited photograph showing three men, one of whom is angry and being restrained. The angry man in the center has had his head replaced with an image of Pythagoras, an ancient Greek mathematician. He is being held back by two other men, one of whom is Stephen Hawking (on the left) and Neil deGrasse Tyson (on the right). Tyson has a speech bubble that says, "Calm down, Pythagoras, calm down."
[Credit to Google Gemini for providing the base alt text.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ayivlaz2ao337cpugpimxgw5/bafkreibzmtyep6plkskxhu546ddn2xb4ulnkvs7qch5ojiyx5glczapyfm)
