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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Got everything I need.
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Yeah no
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in a 100 years, they won't even have grass huts
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Exponential growth be like that
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I think the bigger can you believe is that a doctor asked you how you felt as a way of diagnosing someone.
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Compare today to 1950, and 1950 to 1880. Rate of change is slowing. Low hanging fruit has been picked, at least in the OECD world.
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And people in 200 years will look at us like how we look at homo erectus.
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Do you think the first person to live to 200 has already been born? I wonder if people alive today have been born just a few generations too soon to have (practical) immortality.
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Or they’ll be having too much fun with the heat waves while living on Greenland & Antarctica to think too much about how we couldn’t possibly part with our weekly jet trips.
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That's a beautifully optimistic outlook. I'm sorry that I can't share it. My current expectation for year 2122 is that Earth will be a post-apocalyptic wasteland, with the remnants of humanity eking out a living and cursing us for burning all that oil. We're too late to fix it.
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