This is a blog on why we believe and do what we do, why we pretend otherwise, how we might do better, and what our descendants might do, if they don't all die.
A talk I gave a year ago at Oxford on “Catastrophe, Social Collapse and Human Extinction” is now available as an online vid here. Slides here, related paper here. The talk went beyond the paper to introduce the idea of refuge markets, which I blogged here.
Social Collapse Vid
Download? Perhaps try: http://keepvid.com/
Is there any way to download the video for offline viewing? I can't get vimeo videos to work for me on a 64-bit unix box.