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We should start asking us what's the purpose of humans, instead of talking about needs and labor, and jobs, and employment, and productivity, etc. We can automa
by didibus 10y ago
We should start asking us what's the purpose of humans, instead of talking about needs and labor, and jobs, and employment, and productivity, etc. We can automate everything, and augment a few individual to allow them to provide all the necessities for the entire planet, but why? What is the society we want to live in, what do we want to do with our lives? What are we trying to accomplish? Survival for now has mostly been solved, we're all playing a social game, we create conflict from boredom, success is a social construct, glory and fame are false realities. If we don't ask ourselves why? If we don't think about what we want for ourselved, what we want our world to be like, then we're simply a deterministic construct, like animals, we simoly do things we're programmed too, and I that case, we're bound to simply replace us all eventually. Maybe we're just part of evolution, we're the natural event that leads to sentient machines.
- verinus 10y agoimho very good observation. I myself am often astonished that money seems to be the central nexus of life for so many, where it should be: what can I do with it, how can I use it to shape the world to my ideals...
- aaronharnly 10y ago"Survival for now has mostly been solved" Approximately half of the world's population lives on less than $2.50 a day. Some 1 billion children live in poverty. One in nine people on earth suffer chronic undernourishment -- one in four in sub-Saharan Africa. Some 3 million children die annually from undernutrition. Diarrhea kills over 800,000 people annually, and malaria kills more than 450,000. I know what you mean -- developed nations have made incredible progress -- but we have a long long way to go before we can say this species is sitting pretty.
- douche 10y ago> Some 3 million children die annually from undernutrition. Diarrhea kills over 800,000 people annually, and malaria kills more than 450,000. That sounds like great progress. I could easily imagine that, even in absolute numbers, not per-capita numbers, that might be the lowest rate of preventable illness in human history.
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