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Humanity has peaked sometime around 1960s-1980s, it's all been downhill since then. My theory is that we're in a self-destructive mode now. The technology we
by snshn 4y ago
Humanity has peaked sometime around 1960s-1980s, it's all been downhill since then. My theory is that we're in a self-destructive mode now. The technology we possess keeps advancing while our control over it and intellectual abilities are diminishing, partially because we rely on tech so much (smartphones, automation, "AI").
So in retrospect, we were meant to go (mostly) extinct during the cold war, by some miracle it was narrowly avoided, so we survived past our peak, and now we're just existing on borrowed time, the whole planet is a ticking time bomb, and the question is if we manage to become multi-planetary species before then or go (mostly) extinct.
I think Elon has the same view on things, that would explain Neuralink, Starlink, SpaceX.
- simple-thoughts 4y agoIf by “humanity” you mean the United States’ population, possibly. But for most people in most countries, life is much better today than in the 1980s.
- mikkergp 4y ago> Humanity has peaked sometime around 1960s-1980s I'm 99% certain they would have said the same things in the 60's to 80's about the 20's to 40's (maybe stopping somewhere around 1939) and in the 20's they would certainly be reminiscing about the industrial revolution and gilded age.