i think in 100 years people will look back at 2022 and be even more astonished at how bad our quality of life was than we are looking back at people who lived 1000 years ago

Jul 27, 2022 · 4:38 PM UTC

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(as long as we don't give up on the enlightenment values that got us here)
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The Quality of Life in 100 Years

Published by Save to Mem · 07/27/2022

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If exponential technology continues it looks like it
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“They didn’t even really have crispr!! 😱 “
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or not, since we often view the past through rose tinted lenses. reasonably objective measures may show significant improvement, but public perception could still be the opposite.
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Will people even exist in 1000 years, that’s the question
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Wouldn’t be too sure about that bet, especially given how fast AI is making progress at @OpenAI Looks to me like a very binary outcome space…
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Possibly true 💯💯
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You are crazy. We got ridiculously better life. Live in Europe, check some village museum, listen from tv archive of people whose grandpa was born in the XIXth century. It was super, super bad.
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Believe that mass media and the internet have accelerated the amount of rancor and discord in our society. Toxic crap is now spread at the speed of an electron.
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