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> improving humanity's chances Do you mind elaborating. What chances?

• kstenerud 3y ago
  Improving our chances of surviving as a species into future millennia and beyond by giving the human race every edge I can within my wheelhouse while I'm still breathing. I've had to hold down a full time job, so I've only managed small things like crash reporting, emulation, metalanguage syntax, and a generalized data format. But I have more ambitious projects to greatly improve the energy-efficiency, openness, and robustness of our communications systems, which I plan to leverage into some of my real-world projects going forward (once nice feature is that it will become harder for autocratic regimes to "shut down the internet").
  • michalu 3y ago
    Sorry to be inquisitive, I'm genuinely curious to understand. What drives you to improve chances of humanity to survive? What if it survives but the societal format will be totalitarian? What if the existence will be meaningless ... something along the lines of "brave new world"? What's your motivation and expectations? Do you have a moral principle or belief you can describe that forms the basis of your desire? What's the origin of your beliefs - a lot of people here cite works of science fiction. Where do you see humanity in the best case scenario? What's the best possible end game? What's the end game for you - would this be some kind of immortality project? i.e. your name will stay around or so. Sorry again if this comes of a bit off. I admire the resolve and understand the time spent working on meaningless stuff. Just genuinely curious about the belief system (myself I'mat the same point but I think of going other way, more small scale stuff).