Not in academia, but the amount of crying over rapid technological and intellectual progress because you're not getting credit validates everything critics say about you.
No interest in human advancement, just attribution.
I’m not in academia myself, and I think AI solving all our problems ASAP is ideal, even if it means no humans get attribution.
What I’m saying is that the ultimate goal of those in power are not these sorts of altruistic or even scientific pursuits, and that the massive labor disruption and hyper concentration of power in the hands of those who are proving time and again that advancement of science and benefiting the whole of humanity are actually antithetical to their goals is likely a bad thing.
Does your average poor person in America have happiness after 100s of years of relentless technological progress for the benefit of human advancement, and especially today, in the age of becoming spaghettied into the AI event horizon?
Much of Europe is close to the ocean, high in latitude, or mountainous, and climates there are more temperate. You don’t need AC there; AC is a luxury.
Southeast or central US has considerably higher wet bulb temperatures than Europe does in summer. Without HVAC, there’s a good chunk of the year where it’s too hot to get much done.
Eh, don't be silly. In the places where the summer is hot enough (or, more precise, where it used to be hot enough), I have seen plenty of AC units on shabby buildings, even on old Commie apartment blocs in Romania.
What I’m saying is that the ultimate goal of those in power are not these sorts of altruistic or even scientific pursuits, and that the massive labor disruption and hyper concentration of power in the hands of those who are proving time and again that advancement of science and benefiting the whole of humanity are actually antithetical to their goals is likely a bad thing.