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If science ultimately kills us all due to climate change or nuclear war or global pandemic or alerting hostile aliens to our presence or (other-crazy-thing-of-n
by RhysU 6y ago
If science ultimately kills us all due to climate change or nuclear war or global pandemic or alerting hostile aliens to our presence or (other-crazy-thing-of-nonzero-measure) then I claim that science will not have been good for humanity as a whole. The verdict is unknowable. We comically forgot to run a scientific experiment on the matter.
- raarts 6y agoI get your point, but so far science has been a huge net positive: - electricity (cellphone towers, refrigerators) - food technology (producing food efficiently) - medicine (vaccines, hospitals) - hygiene (sewer system, clean water) have allowed us in the last five centuries to raise humanity from '99% being starved', to 'largely prosperous and improving fast'.