This is stupid but I find it unreasonably frustrating when people question motivation rather than facts re: A City on Mars. Like, I'm concerned about the state of reproductive science because it's objectively worrisome, not because I'm an anti-futurist or reactionary or anti-optimism or whatever. Fight me with facts!
@ZachWeinersmith Not to take a directly contrarian view here, but I do think there's a lot of value in a lot more people thinking about the problem in an optimistic framing ('let's solve this' vs 'this is a crippling hard wall'), and when we come up with solutions (I'm going to force my own optimism on the topic) it's going to be because a lot of people thought about it, and problem-solved.
Of course, step 1 is knowing all the facts first!
@Oggie @ZachWeinersmith Isn't that kind of the point of the book?
@ech @ZachWeinersmith
Indeed!
Sort of the joke I was going for, I probably could have framed it better.