Nathan Myhrvold
7 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 21, 2023 by Nathan Myhrvold · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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Mar 21, 2023
Mar 21, 2023
Global temperatures will rise for a century even if emissions stop
“It turns out if you stopped all emissions on day one, the climate will continue to drift, drift upwards for about a hundred years. I have written a bunch of papers on global warming. I've done this calculation. Other people have done this calculation. You know…”
Mar 21, 2023
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Mar 21, 2023
Myhrvold left a postdoc with Stephen Hawking to build a startup
“Took a leave of absence to work on a project I had started in graduate school with some friends. And that project turned into a software company, and I became the CEO of the company. And Then Microsoft bought the company, and I was at Microsoft.”
Mar 21, 2023 negative
The space colonization drive is an imperialist holdover, not a necessity
“In terms of a need to, like, colonize the solar system, I don't think, I think people believe that that's an imperative as a holdover from the ideas of the age of imperialism when we thought, oh yes, we have to go conquer and colonize the whole world.”
Mar 21, 2023 negative
Treating Mars as a backup planet will inevitably ruin Mars too
“It probably makes a lot more sense to try to take care of this planet and not screw it up than to treat Earth as being disposable and say, oh, it's okay, we're gonna go, we'll have Mars. Because if you keep thinking that way, you're gonna screw Mars up too.”