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> At the end, she came away convinced that the most serious problems facing humanity aren’t technical: Although engineering our way out of trouble is possible,
by neilv 3y ago
> At the end, she came away convinced that the most serious problems facing humanity aren’t technical: Although engineering our way out of trouble is possible, it can’t happen until we transcend ourselves, seeing beyond our own individual well-being to the needs of us all.
Hasn't this been obvious and practiced in various ways by many/most people, for millennia?
Are they talking about something different?
- kevinventullo 3y agoYeah, I don’t think the people trying to build, say, quantum computers are doing so out of some perception of benefit to their immediate well-being.