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If we all worked on things as important as curing cancer, we could build god and live happily forever. Whichever generation manages this will 'win'. (Or they

• t-writescode 6y ago
  I imagine they said the same thing about trying to find something to kill scary things that get into our bodies and kill us from easy-to-die-to diseases. I see the world has not built god and lived happily, forever, after antibiotics were discovered and used. Something else that's horrible will come along and human tendencies will still prevail and exploit others.
  • morlockabove 6y ago
    Modus tollens, modus ponens; my quality of life is vastly improved by not dying of smallpox and equivalent improvements to the world would be very valuable. I think going back to a situation with smallpox would be a big decrease, so that argues against things not really getting better. Building god's just the end-example, even if you never get there you can keep making things better. (I should say that by "build god" I just mean build a friendly AI, i.e. automate science. If that's impossible, just try and do what it would do.) (Hard to enjoy your sex toys when you're coughing your lungs out!)