Defence in depth is a time-tested strategy in some technical fields, such as cybersecurity or nuclear reactor technology. In view of potentially devasting consequences of exponential growth, the implementation of such a strategy is almost self-evident in this case. Less obvious is a formal...

It is widely understood that scarcity focuses people on “here and now” problems, causing myopic, impulsive decisions. Our work challenges this basic premise and asks whether scarcity can ever lead to increased patience. We suggest that existing work that has inadvertently conflated resource...