For sure. I don't see these as comprehensive, nor as reasons not to try (nor even think it'd be possible to stop others from trying them).
But I worry that this path is already the one we're disposed to fail/default into, and that a rose-tinted view of it will only make it easier for other opportunities slip through our fingers while gobs of smart people focus on the technological half of the moon-shot.
Put another way, the degree of optimism I hear on these approaches smells like the kind of hubris that causes people to lose races they think they've won.
But I worry that this path is already the one we're disposed to fail/default into, and that a rose-tinted view of it will only make it easier for other opportunities slip through our fingers while gobs of smart people focus on the technological half of the moon-shot.
Put another way, the degree of optimism I hear on these approaches smells like the kind of hubris that causes people to lose races they think they've won.