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I wonder if there is anyway society can progress faster? Right now we're waiting for boomers to die out because they can't cope with Facebook. Will the kids bor

I wonder if there is anyway society can progress faster? Right now we're waiting for boomers to die out because they can't cope with Facebook. Will the kids born 10 years ago have to wait for my generation to die out because we think all fakes on YouTube are real?

fit2rule 6y ago
Yes, there is a way society can progress faster. It starts with every individual making the decision not to be a heinous bigot. Not easy. Can't do it with technology.
consumer451 6y ago
Don’t worry, very serious people are working on life extension technologies. So the generational evolution you are describing will soon be a thing of the past!
- LatteLazy 6y ago
  It honestly worries me. It's pretty well proven that science advances only when old scientists, leaders in their fields, die. Imagine a society where the majority still though interracial marriage (let alone gay marriage) was wrong. And only because they thought that when they were 20 and haven't updated since...
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- mewpmewp2 6y ago
  I hope so. I really hope I will be able to become immortal and in a youthful condition. This would be a big thing for me, because I can't enjoy life at all knowing that every single day I spend is one day closer to my death. It's just impossible to enjoy life without being immortal in my view. I always feel anxious that I'm not spending the best time possible, no matter what I do. One of the reasons I really want to become rich beyond belief too, so I could a) Support this tech, b) Be one of the first to get this as the first ones will be the ones who can afford to bid the most, and also it may be limited, you can't possibly in the beginning stages have all 8B of people have this treatment.
  - consumer451 6y ago
    > It's just impossible to enjoy life without being immortal in my view. I believe that has been a commonly held view by humans throughout history and explains the reason for some sort of after-life being pre-installed in nearly all religions. From an individual pov, yes please extend my life forever. From a species pov, it seems like a possible evolutionary dead end.
m463 6y ago
maybe it'll go 360 and let people get out of real video evidence by saying/"proving" it's a deepfake.
- jobigoud 6y ago
  That's the biggest impact on society it will have imho. It's the end of accountability. Everything becomes plausibly deniable.
  - jjk166 6y ago
    Video editing has been a thing since there was video, and other types of evidence have been forge-able forever. Frankly, if there's no corroborating evidence and no reliable chain-of-custody, video evidence should be considered just as suspect as anything else. Really, the CSI era where people just trust some arcane source of truth and question neither how that evidence was collected nor interpreted has been extremely harmful, and we should hope it soon comes to an end.
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fit2rule 6y ago

Yes, there is a way society can progress faster. It starts with every individual making the decision not to be a heinous bigot. Not easy. Can't do it with technology.

consumer451 6y ago

Don’t worry, very serious people are working on life extension technologies. So the generational evolution you are describing will soon be a thing of the past!

LatteLazy 6y ago
It honestly worries me. It's pretty well proven that science advances only when old scientists, leaders in their fields, die. Imagine a society where the majority still though interracial marriage (let alone gay marriage) was wrong. And only because they thought that when they were 20 and haven't updated since...
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mewpmewp2 6y ago
I hope so. I really hope I will be able to become immortal and in a youthful condition. This would be a big thing for me, because I can't enjoy life at all knowing that every single day I spend is one day closer to my death. It's just impossible to enjoy life without being immortal in my view. I always feel anxious that I'm not spending the best time possible, no matter what I do. One of the reasons I really want to become rich beyond belief too, so I could a) Support this tech, b) Be one of the first to get this as the first ones will be the ones who can afford to bid the most, and also it may be limited, you can't possibly in the beginning stages have all 8B of people have this treatment.
- consumer451 6y ago
  > It's just impossible to enjoy life without being immortal in my view. I believe that has been a commonly held view by humans throughout history and explains the reason for some sort of after-life being pre-installed in nearly all religions. From an individual pov, yes please extend my life forever. From a species pov, it seems like a possible evolutionary dead end.

m463 6y ago

maybe it'll go 360 and let people get out of real video evidence by saying/"proving" it's a deepfake.

jobigoud 6y ago
That's the biggest impact on society it will have imho. It's the end of accountability. Everything becomes plausibly deniable.
- jjk166 6y ago
  Video editing has been a thing since there was video, and other types of evidence have been forge-able forever. Frankly, if there's no corroborating evidence and no reliable chain-of-custody, video evidence should be considered just as suspect as anything else. Really, the CSI era where people just trust some arcane source of truth and question neither how that evidence was collected nor interpreted has been extremely harmful, and we should hope it soon comes to an end.

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