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sn00g1ns t1_j1etjm9 wrote

People get excited about the Singularity. I started reading about it over a decade ago and I still get excited about it. That's a good thing. Let people be excited. Let them post here and ask stupid questions and theorize with other excited people. This doesn't have to be Stack Overflow.

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AsuhoChinami t1_j1eug0u wrote

Yeah. Yesterday, after having an argument with someone who thinks there will be almost no advancement in medical technology between now and 2040, I decided I'm just going to read comments and threads here much less frequently than before. I'm done. I know what I believe the future will be like, and I don't want anyone to take shits on that vision. I'm just tired of skeptics and cynics and self-proclaimed realists who think that there's never anything worth being happy for or excited about, that the suffering and misery in the world will never be removed to any meaningful degree whatsoever. It's time to just distance myself from these people as much as I can.

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AdditionalPizza t1_j1fmu3y wrote

I try to only join the discussions that interest me, more so than the ones that are, well, stupid. Sometimes I find myself in a long drawn out pointless argument with someone, but usually I only keep the debate going if they make reasonable arguments instead of just focusing on one dumb little thing that they think gives them the upper hand.

This goes for all discussions really. Join in, but try to recognize when you're wasting your breath. I struggle with it sometimes, but ultimately it's still nice to engage with similarly minded people.

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sn00g1ns t1_j1f7eiq wrote

There's a lot of people without hope out there. They can't see the progress and how much things are better now than they were just a short time ago in history (for most people). I am scared of what could go wrong or be abused, and I don't think it will be an easy path. But, I have hope and faith in humanity making a better future through technology. It feels right, and it doesn't do much good to feel or act otherwise.

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AndromedaAnimated t1_j1k5z5u wrote

I think it is a wise decision, but at the same time a pity. I see a tendency in this subreddit to criticise others‘ dreams, hopes and opinions, taking shits like you said, and that from a high horse (just had a self-proclaimed „PhD student“ squeeze out a big one on the whole subreddit for being basically not professional enough while disguising it as a sceptic post, lol) .

I hope you reconsider and continue to write here. Hopeful and dreaming people are so much more pleasant than pessimists - and I have been one myself, but tbh it just makes one unhappy in the end ;)

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Maleficent_Cloud5943 t1_j1ey2m0 wrote

You either misunderstood or misinterpreted this post. I've been perpetually excited about it for half my life. But when people start steamrolling an entire subreddit with misinformation, disinformation, or outright ignorance, the conversation ends up devolving into a dumpster fire rather than something that helps people understand the implications of the most critical milestone humanity has ever faced.

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sn00g1ns t1_j1f5ywq wrote

I feel ya. The problem is that the Singularity is probably on the other side of the largest dumpster fire in history.

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