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ribblle OP t1_j2p0uap wrote

The problem is, these things aren't just information. They would be constant annoyances and danger and, threats. People don't actually just move on. The gears turn, and sooner or later you start worrying about nuclear weapons again. This stuff would represent a much more immediate and often personal problem, with the stress to match.

But, let me not bury my point. If you have all these things constantly in your view, your just not going to have the same experience we're accustomed to today. You could end up living like a rabbit mentally running away from one strange question after another.

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DoesntWantToBe t1_j2pc72i wrote

None of these things represent a threat to a reasonable person, and strange questions are what we're good at as a species. We invented god and the devil, we invented lizard people disguising themselves as human and running for political office.

We're not confused or terrified of these things as a species. Some members of our species are incredibly anxious and terrified of everything, you seem to be on the anxious side, but that just isn't most people.

Most people won't even think about these things beyond the conveniences they provide, like the way they treat facebook's data sharing today. Convenience trumps existential questions like privacy, humanity, and the nature of the human soul.

Some people will be excited for the potential changes and nerd out about it, much like the people who closely watch the space industry and dream of mars colonies.

A tiny, tiny percentage of people will stand on street corners and scream that the end is nigh. They'll be driven crazy by the changes to what they see as the natural course of human evolution.

But they won't impact how humanity moves forward with these advances. Because humanity will just keep moving forward until and unless something wipes us out. It would take a near-extinction level event for the average person to start having daily anxiety about advances in biogenetic and computer sciences. Most people just aren't that fussed with it.

And absolutely nothing coming in the next 20-30 years is going to change that barring a nuclear war or asteroid hitting the earth. Societies change quickly, but not that quickly.

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ribblle OP t1_j2pcfdr wrote

Christ man. I'm a paranoid schizophrenic for having my worries about rapid technological progression. Fucking reddit.

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