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> A great thing about being alive today is knowing how much less humans will suffer in the future. A tough part of being alive today is knowing that you're like
by hh3k0 9y ago
> A great thing about being alive today is knowing how much less humans will suffer in the future. A tough part of being alive today is knowing that you're likely to miss out on it, and will instead suffer greatly.
Ah, no need to worry about that just yet. Future generations will most likely have their fair share of suffering thanks to climate change and pollution.
- geowwy 9y agoWe have plenty of problems in our own time too. Obesity, metabolic disease and cardiovascular disease are out of control and we seem to have no idea how to fix it. Rates of unhappiness are as high as they've ever been and people are becoming increasingly reliant on psychiatric drugs. It's also not guaranteed that increased automation and AI will be a net benefit. We could easily end up with an economy run almost exclusively by robots, where the only humans needed are those who are technically minded enough to program, design and service the robots, where everyone else is left massively underemployed.
- cageface 9y agoOur leading killers are heavily correlated with diet, and we know what diets most effectively fight them: https://nutritionfacts.org/introduction/ https://nutritionfacts.org/introduction/ Lucky for us the healthiest diets also seem to have a strong positive effect on mood & depression. The healthiest diets also have a much lighter carbon footprint than the typical American diet.