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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lmao
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The essential Progressive faith.
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don’t think so much!
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"Can you believe people breathed that air"
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What is this "quality of life" you speak of good sir?
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Will we make Mr. Sam? Will even make it with civilization relatively intact?
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okay, but hear me out: at that exponential rate of improvement of a single factor, "quality of life", that would mean
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Depends quite a bit on how these next few go.
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Most definitely
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What do you think will be the major drivers of change that would get us to a future like this? I can imagine fusion at scale, advances in biotechnology and healthcare, and interplanetary mining, but I can't see other massive improvements in the immediate future. Thoughts?
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