I think we’re living in the most exciting time in the history of the universe. Our resource consumption is on trajectory to result in global civilization colla

I think we’re living in the most exciting time in the history of the universe. Our resource consumption is on trajectory to result in global civilization collapse around 2040: https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/z3xw3x/new-research-vindicates-1972-mit-prediction-that-society-will-collapse-soon https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/z3xw3x/new-research-vind... On the other hand, Juergen Schmidhuber (and Eric Schmidt, and Ray Kurzweil) predicts the “Omega point” of technological development (including AGI) to be around 2040: https://youtu.be/pGftUCTqaGg https://youtu.be/pGftUCTqaGg This race between progress and destruction was destined to happen and it culminates in our lifetime.