June Porzellan asks "What gives you hope?" This is my stream of consciousness answer:
"The Internet, Bitcoin, cryonics, MDMA, Peter Thiel, my friends, Ephemerisle, Burning Man, Patton Oswalt, my birthday party, regulatory arbitrage, Wikileaks, seasteading, the X Prize, James Doohan, Ron Paul, Wikipedia, molecular genetics, neuroscience, MRI machines, antibiotics, statistical reasoning, BIL, Langton Labs, Ecuador, Adis Abbaba, social policy bonds, permaculture, Open Science Summit, Life Extension Conference, Freezing Woman, Portugual, the Czech Republic, Mike Oehler, Elon Musk, Richard Branson, John Stossel, Judge Napolitano, Amazon EC2, Google, Youtube, YCombinator, TheGlint, cruise ships, The Barge To Hell, the Tor network, encryption, Greg Fahy, Silk Road"
"The Internet, Bitcoin, cryonics, MDMA, Peter Thiel, my friends, Ephemerisle, Burning Man, Patton Oswalt, my birthday party, regulatory arbitrage, Wikileaks, seasteading, the X Prize, James Doohan, Ron Paul, Wikipedia, molecular genetics, neuroscience, MRI machines, antibiotics, statistical reasoning, BIL, Langton Labs, Ecuador, Adis Abbaba, social policy bonds, permaculture, Open Science Summit, Life Extension Conference, Freezing Woman, Portugual, the Czech Republic, Mike Oehler, Elon Musk, Richard Branson, John Stossel, Judge Napolitano, Amazon EC2, Google, Youtube, YCombinator, TheGlint, cruise ships, The Barge To Hell, the Tor network, encryption, Greg Fahy, Silk Road"