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But you won’t learn anything unless we try. And having some shared goal for the humanity could be life changing.
by f6v 6y ago
But you won’t learn anything unless we try. And having some shared goal for the humanity could be life changing.
- xvector 6y agoAnd thus the argument on which absurdly expensive shared goal to choose begins. You want to terraform Venus. I want to develop mind uploading and thus optional immortality. Another person wants to solve world hunger. Somebody else wants to cure cancer. Etc.
- ausbah 6y agothe cost, feasibility, and moral imperative of each of those things is vastly different. "curing cancer" has been happening and world hunger has been dropping for decades now, mind uploading is still far on the horizon, and thinking of terraforming at this stage seems silly