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by pygy_ 3375 days ago
I'm not so much scared of "go kill these people". More of "stop feeding them, we need to repurpose arable land for energy production" at a point where we won't have the know how to produce food for everyone by hand, or similar scenarios.

It may still be people at the helm at the time it happens, it doesn't matter. Humans are capable of large scale atrocities, provided they de-humanize their victims. Many people in the .01% have utter contempt for poorer folks, for example.

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To be honest I really think the world population will slowly reduce as more people start getting wealthier.

I also think as soon as you can upload your brain into a robot, people will opt into that and shoot themselves in space towards other planets.