Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Ice: The Penultimate Frontier, published by Roko on July 14, 2024 on LessWrong.

I argue here that preventing a large iceberg from melting is absurdly cheap per unit area compared to just about any other way of making new land, and it's kind of crazy to spend money on space exploration and colonization before colonizing the oceans with floating ice-islands.

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