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Obviously, this is great news and well-done by the Gates family. But I always wonder if we shouldn't be putting this kind-of money into what I consider society'
by ImTalking 10y ago
Obviously, this is great news and well-done by the Gates family. But I always wonder if we shouldn't be putting this kind-of money into what I consider society's most pressing problem which is our social intelligence, or in a single word, tolerance.
We can have all the technical/medical/etc intelligence but if our social intelligence lags behind then it creates the problems we have today such as over-population, racism, nationalism, etc. And, seemingly, this gap is increasing; we are now on the cusp of AI, machine-learning, robotics, automation, etc, yet we can't tolerant another person's skin-colour, or their lifestyle, or their life choices, or even their gender. Socially, we are apes with nuclear weapons.
I guess one might say that these innovations help mankind as a whole since they (should) increase quality-of-life. But these innovations only help if they help the entire base of the population pyramid. And as we know, greed and the pursuit of money/power/etc can and usually do create a world of haves/have nots which, again, are symptoms of a selfish, individualistic society. We only have to look at Martin Shkreli as evidence here.
So all these innovations pour out of labs, corporations, universities as the earth temperatures and ocean waters rise-up. We just don't have the political or economic will to understand that our intolerance, and the increasing gap between our social and technical intelligence is the biggest issue of our time.
- PutinIsEvil 10y agoMaybe go live in Pakistan for a few weeks and you can set an example?