• This was interesting to me on a global politics level.
  • How does the Chinese government see this announcement?
    • We’ve got to get in this game.
      • Gather as much information as possible.
      • Encourage international involvement so that the machinations come closer to your own shores (e.g. Japan) for easier infiltration, influencing, etc.
      • Develop strategy for response to this. For example, the issue of ecological damage might be a great leverage point with which to influence international opinion.
    • We’ve got to prepare for any outcomes that can harm us
      • Technology development will be huge here. We will be out-developed.
  • How do other governments see this announcement?
    • A broad guess: Money.
      • Either losing it (to being out-competed in space technology—Russia)
      • Or gaining it (related services, expertise, etc.)
  • Mutually-assured destruction: Is it assured anymore, when you’ve got people living off-planet?
    • If it’s not assured, don’t we have a problem on our hands?
    • Example: The colony could be an off-world military asset.
    • How hard would it be for an adversary to wipe out a Mars colony? What would be necessary at the various stages of colony growth? And in return, how could the colony be hardened or made resistant to attack or infiltration?
• Cognitively speaking this was also very interesting.
  • It’s like a Ni+Te dream story.
  • Musk is a great model for INTJs.
    • Dream it up with Ni (introverted intuition). Dream as big as you can!
    • Use Te (extraverted thinking) to measure the requirements and run the numbers.
    • Result: Probably something pretty great, even if it doesn’t match your original vision exactly.
  • Most INTJs will probably never reach half of their potential, if you express potential even as “one Musk unit” or something like that.
  • As an INTJ, I need to dream bigger.
  • And I also need to back that up with measurement, spreadsheets, assessments, new frameworks as needed, etc.
  • I don’t need to be Musk himself to be happy, but I’d be bummed if I didn’t reach for my maximum potential
    • Leveraging my own gifts of course, not necessarily Musk’s.

Anyway, a fascinating state of events.

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