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Book review: Dark Skies: Space Expansionism, Planetary Geopolitics, and the Ends of Humanity, by Daniel Deudney.

Dark Skies is an unusually good and bad book.

Good in the sense that 95% of the book consists of uncontroversial, scholarly, mundane claims that accurately describe the views that Deudney is attacking. These parts of the book are careful to distinguish between value differences and claims about objective facts.

Bad in the senses that the good parts make the occasional unfair insult more gratuitous, and that Deudney provides little support for his predictions that his policies will produce better results than those of his adversaries. I count myself as one of his adversaries.

Dark Skies is an opposite of Where Is My Flying Car? in both style and substance.

I read the 609 pages of Where Is My Flying Car? fast enough [...]

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Outline:

(01:44) War

(05:33) Inhuman Descendants?

(07:09) Freedom and Democracy

(08:32) Hype

(09:49) Minor Points

(11:16) Conclusion

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First published:
December 29th, 2023

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hp2KoAWB7n69PT8HP/dark-skies-book-review-1

Linkpost URL:
https://bayesianinvestor.com/blog/index.php/2023/12/28/dark-skies/

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

[Linkpost] “Dark Skies Book Review” by PeterMcCluskey

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[Linkpost] “Dark Skies Book Review” by PeterMcCluskey