See this fucker^^^ well yeah just like the god damn movies a bunch of people are out there engineering these things. Pair that with AI that will one day fuck us all and you have killing machines faster than us and smarter than us ready to take over the world
Often they are the same thing...there are many educated idiots on the planet who practice ignorant rage...so what if they can do your taxes
To be honest though right now it has more to do with this SJW and progressive movement. It has already taught kids how to disregard science and biology and it's a truly insane ideology people have. The outrage culture, etc. Constant policing of words by others and it's only gotten worse. Context doesn't matter to people anymore, everybody just wants to be mad about something and establish some weird morale high ground. It's really bad
Other people. It's a huge macro trend that I just don't like. Why do they exist? Why do they have opinions? Let's get rid of other people, except the ones who agree with me. barfo
'Did he ban six posters or only five'? Well to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, i kind of lost track myself. But being that this is a .44 ban hammer, the most powerful ban hammer in the world, and would blow your avatar clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well do ya, punk? barfo
If you asked people in 1987 this same question about what bad things do you think will happen in the next 30 years they'd mostly seem laughably pessimistic. Nuclear annihilation, everybody dead from AIDS, poverty, overpopulation, economic collapse. Meanwhile, everything mostly got better than it's ever been in human history for the vast majority of people on this planet. More people were lifted out of poverty and despotic government, more people gained access to education, women's rights and children's rights vastly expanded, your likelihood of getting killed in war shrunk dramatically in all but a very small handful of countries. The human mind more easily imagines pessimistic outcomes, and there definitely are some scary things out there. But try to remember the media makes more money by painting grim and depressing pictures, and that inevitably shapes every person's perception of the future. The good old days weren't always good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.
That said, my own pet worries: Automation: I've got two boys under 12. I just don't see where the jobs are for them in 20-30 years. Living in the UK, I'm more confident that the government here will be able to respond to automation than they will in the US, but I think it's going to get messy for everybody. Pandemic: Spanish Flu killed 3-5% of the world's population in 1919. The life expectancy in the US dropped by 12 years. It's harder than ever to quarantine such a flu. I can't imagine the impact such a flu would have on us now. Climate change: It's just kind of crazy to me that we're running an experiment to see how far we can push things. I'd never run an experiment on my e-com site where I had no backup plan, no way to roll back bad decisions, where one bad outcome could destroy my business. Even if I thought there was just a 1% chance of it going wrong, I'd still cancel the experiment. It's just nuts to me we're all just treating the world like a beta website launching it worldwide without any backups. I'm not expecting cataclysmic disaster, but it just seems so risky when the benefits just aren't worth it. Small-scale nuclear war: I can easily imagine North Korea's regime falling and them deciding to take out Seoul and something on the West Coast of the US just as a final "fuck you."
Your depiction of the ability of people to adapt to climate change only looks at a micro level--it ignores the (purported) macro effects of climate change. Wearing a hat during the day and keeping a jacket in your trunk will have no value against rising sea levels, rising ocean temperatures killing wide swaths of sea life, modified currents generating unprecedented hurricanes/typhoons, etc...
Awright......who let the optimist into this thread???? Ban ‘em! But seriously, very, very good point. To echo @Stevenson, thank you. Nice to see a glimpse of positivity for a change.......
