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Iffykindofguy t1_je7zkln wrote

We are a doomed society if we dont make serious changes regardless. I'd rather gamble those changes are based off as much advanced science and understanding as we can rather than the alternative which appears to be capitalism and religion. Thats how I see it. We are all going to die if something doesnt change either way. At least the people in the northern hemisphere. Maybe thats for the best.

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GorgeousMoron OP t1_je817c3 wrote

I mean, who's to really say? I think the chances that a lot of us will die given our current trajectory are high. Maybe AI will save our asses. Maybe it will have no use for us and largely ignore us. Maybe we will get spooked and try to fight it, and lose.

But given no AI and our current trajectory, you're right, it's not looking that good in quite a few ways. We are a confabulatin' species and it's killing our politics. The wealth inequality has reached absolutely obscene levels in much of the western world, and something's about to pop. In no way is this sustainable longer term.

Me, I'm doing comparatively pretty well, but I can see the writing on the wall: we're in an era of very rapid societal change and it's gonna get more so.

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