[werber]

I'm hopeful for a more cooperative human centric future. I think we have the technology to replace old systems and ideas. Things are getting better more then they're getting worse for so many people and I really want to see that pattern accelerate to the point all preventable disease is addressed and access to medical care is universal, there is no risk of famine due to technology advances in food production, there is no war, for obvious reasons. And on the other hand, I worry that human beings will mostly be dead and areas that are currently landlocked will be a costal town for the few remaining rich people who have replaced the need for the lower classes by automation. But mostly the former

[simonh]

At a global level things are undoubtedly getting much better, in terms of human quality of life. Hundreds of millions of people are rising out of poverty, violence is on the way down, women’s and minority rights are expanding in most of the world, and most of this is happening in developing nations that need it the most.

I worth though that we are doing thus by passing the costs down to future generations. Fur a techie analogy, it’s like looking at the balance sheet if Blackberry in 2008. Profits were on the way up, at a raw financial level they were doing better than ever, but there core business was rotting away.

[perfunctory]

> costal town for the few remaining rich people who have replaced the need for the lower classes by automation

In this scenario there will be no industry left to speak of to support the automation. The remaining people, regardless of their initial wealth, will not be rich.

[werber]

I don't really think about this in a real way. I think we are going to be ok, but like this is my fever dream

[werber]

Rather nightmare