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Technology won't save us. Hoping that someday soon^tm someone will come up with something that makes all the current mess go away is a dangerous path. In germ
by gasparto 3y ago
Technology won't save us.
Hoping that someday soon^tm someone will come up with something that makes all the current mess go away is a dangerous path.
In germany they call it 'Technologieoffen' - and even some political parties have written it on their flags.
'No need to implement changes now - someday God will decent and absolve us from all of our sins - until then party hard! #yolo'
I'm all for accelerating research/tech. But it can't be an excuse to just let sh*t happen.
Yet most people will do this - it's expected human behavior.
- hackerlight 3y agoI want to accelerate good stuff (fusion, mRNA cancer vaccines, solar power learning curve, LLMs that help programmers be more productive, housing construction) and decel bad stuff (proof-of-work crypto, deepfakes, new coal mines, microplastics). If we accel/decel the right things, I think we have a shot.
- 52-6F-62 3y agoWell put.
- ted_bunny 3y agoWe're more likely to get Deus Ex than a Deus Ex Machina