A misguided opinion sprouted from a sheltered, privileged life. Get a grip “Sam”

especially the people who remember you tried to scan their eyeballs

I suspect it is roughly equally likely thst they think the opposite. We have had centuries of unbelievable progress but there are plenty of reasons to suspect that such consisten progress is unusual. And plenty of risks that could easily end it.

why 10x improvement? after Rome empire fell (western), much of Europe fell into dark-ages for ~500 yrs then slowly began a 350 yr climb (sci, tech, biz) a further 400 yrs got us vaccines, automaton, electric cars ... that's 100+ yrs ago. We'd need 2 major breakthroughs for 10x

I think your investments into fusion power may be the catalyst that accelerates the shift.

what will be the tipping point for the quality of life to begin improving again, because I think an argument can be made that the quality of life has been on a decline since the late 90s. DALL·E 2 is rad btw, I'm having a blast with it

100 years we will all be in tubes feeding us all our lives whilst strapped in a VR existence with the biggest house and best standard of living one could imagine

Hey Sam, what would be the major quality of life changes in 100 years? Compare to 1,000 years ago, we now have clean running water, waste management, computer, internet, superior transportation systems, gender equality, longer life expectancy...

Blockchain UBI will be a big one!

What do you think are the big changes that will lead to this?