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And who do you think will be in charge of all of these things? Lol
Cocaine is a helluva drug.
Is that new reality going to end up being a shinier version of Office Space for everyone, everywhere, forever?
If so you can keep all that shit.
Marketing…
Healthy optimism
Optimism, pessimism, those are never healthy. They cloud your view of the truth, and make you assume that you know what you don’t.
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So if a pilot is in a failing aeroplane and is coming down for a landing that he knows is almost certainly going to lead to death. Having a more optimistic view of the situation is always bad? What about the people on the plane that are either going to die instantly or live, why be scared beforehand.
One of my favourite quotes is:
“The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.”
And this brings me back to optimism. How many times have you watched a sports game where it was shut out and over then in the dying minutes of the game you see a team win it and the commentators will say something like “no one thought that was possible, except for the men on the pitch and at the end of they day that’s all that matters”
I can’t believe I’m defending optimism because I’m thr least optimistic person in the world.
I can’t believe I’m defending optimism because I’m thr least optimistic person in the world.
I’m defending realism even if I’m extremely pessimistic, so… welcome to the club.
So if a pilot is in a failing aeroplane […]
From the pilot’s PoV, both optimism and pessimism mean the potential loss of the tiny chance of survival - one because it underestimates the effort necessary to achieve the desired result, another for giving it up. While realism is the option that actually allows you to seize that chance, and say “we’re probably fucked, but I can increase my odds of survival with my effort”.
From the passengers’ PoV: if they know that the plane will crash, and can’t realistically do anything about it, optimism means wasting their likely last moments of life. While realism means accepting “I’m going to die in a few moments; better grab the gorgonzola from my bag and enjoy it, I probably won’t be able to gift it to my cousin. Komm, Susser Tot!”
And this brings me back to optimism. How many times have you watched a sports game
I don’t watch sports, but I think that what I said still applies: optimism leading to less effort than the necessary to win, pessimism leading to giving up, realism leads to a cold analysis of the situation and what should be done to get the best result.
It’s a cult. Altman is one of the TESCREAL devotees. He truly believes that he can build the electronic messiah.
Well, the bar for an electronic messiah is not that high, considering its predecessors in the cult field.
Hail the Omnissiah! I mean what-
Remember: burning an effigy a day keeps the Evil away~
It’s probably cocaine
Hyping up the stock price.
Cokeium
cokaina… todays topic, slavery
Hopium. There’s far too much “evil” force in this world for there to ever be an edan or unity. Overall chaos is what got us to our current state of humanity. Chaos will always be.
Don’t read that as me saying humans are shit though. It’s more like humans don’t want to take their lack of “power” seriously. Which is natural or whatever… I know it all sounds negative, but I don’t mean for it to sound negative. Chaos is the only constant, order comes from it, but chaos is always dominant from the present moment to the future. You can’t stop the universe, including human society from changing and growing. You can learn about it and create from it but it always owns you. No matter who you are.
None of the things mentioned here that we could achieve would require an absence of evil or need the whole world to cooperate. Hell we’ve been doing the last one for quite some time in the form of books, movies and video games.
The first paragraph? Can’t say I disagree.
Second paragraph? Delusional. Or actively deceitful. Given Altman’s background, I’m leaning toward the second.
We already have abundance at scale; the rest is just greed and logistics
It’s enough to look at how much stuff is available in a supermarket, or in the average, home, to know we live in an age of abundance. The problem is, is that abundance is not shared, but hoarded.
We have enough food to feed the world, we have enough production for everyone in the world to have a smartphone and internet access and electricity. We can make clothes for everyone, we can home everyone. We have enough healthcare for everyone.
By an objective measure, we have abundance, we have enough. The world is just severely mismanaging our resources and the distribution of them. Because the economy doesn’t work for humans, instead humans work for the economy.
Cure all human disease?
Paragraphs are bodies of text. So the second paragraph in this scenario is the one where we are only a few breakthroughs away.
Words are a series of letters.
He agrees that we can cure all human disease? That’s silly.
It’s delusional. The problems we have are not caused by lack of technology and cannot be solved by new technology.
We already have that abundance. It’s just waiting to be liberated.
I don’t think most of these people realize that Earth has finite resources, and we’re already running short on some of them
These people jump immediately to star lifting what will give you several planets of resources and energy. It’s very “rest of the fucking owl.”
An issue with this tweet is that we already have the capacity to do a lot. We have the technology to provide healthy and diverse diets for the entire planet and fit a cities worth of farming inside a few city blocks (vertical hydroponics/aeroponics). We have the ability to create electricity in a dozen different renewable ways. We have the ability to desalinate water creating nearly infinite fresh water, we have enough square footage in the world to easily house everyone. We have stellar education systems that we could hand out to the entire world.
Why don’t we do it? Well, all these things cost money. But the issue is, there also exists staggering amounts of money across the world. The panama papers revealed just a fraction of the wealth being hoarded by just a fraction of the wealthiest people in the world (and most implicated in the panema papers weren’t even too crazy, like soccer stars and business owners). There’s exists tens to hundreds of trillions of dollars of wealth created by the world just floating around in billionaires bank accounts and in the coffers of world powers.
So it’s not an issue of abundance coming in the near future, we have it here on earth right now.
exactly.
many of the mundane atrocities being committed every day are deliberate choices in service of capital rather than people.
you know, health insurance companies, etc.
yes
they’re absolutely correct we will make all of these breakthroughs, but you dear reader? will benefit from none of them
Only for share holders.
