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>Unfortunately, I don't see this changing, because humans are short-sighted and too often focused on relative dominance rather than absolute prosperity. I wond
by jsprogrammer 11y ago
>Unfortunately, I don't see this changing, because humans are short-sighted and too often focused on relative dominance rather than absolute prosperity.
I wonder if that may only be because most people can't see what may be possible in the future if certain things are done today. That's not an intrinsic limitation of people, it's just that people tend to focus on different things. To bring someone else's perspective into their view is difficult and takes time, especially if there is no easy way to share one's perspective (different languages, different cultures, different life experiences).
I think that if we can find ways to express (sound) ideas to people in ways that they can understand, we will find that most people will agree and want to build that better future. Actually building that future requires solving technical problems, but also requires political solutions to resolve the inevitable clashes of perspective (and flat-out wrongness) that will occur.