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It's not an oxymoron. An analysis of the long-term and even medium-term trends to the human condition shows that thing have tended to consistently improve over time. As just one example, consider how the share of humanity that lives in extreme poverty has declined: https://ourworldindata.org/graphe...

"Considering flying cars are impractical, and warp drives are still a theoretical technology, i don't really think we'll be finding any solutions for a pretty long time lol." ...That's literally what I just said. Believing that the techno-utopia sort of world seen in Star Trek will exist ...

I honestly think you're panicking a little too much here. Pandemics and times of increased war are two frequently recurring tropes in human history that have been going on for thousands of years, so it was probably only a matter of time before there would be an instance of overlap. Yes, there's now...

"Bit of any oxymoron when you mention rational pessimism, pessimism by nature requires you to be negative and to assume that things will get worse with time; even where is no basis for it" "Works too" not really, reality tends to have a pessimistic bias. don't have to look too fa...

ah i see, apologies for the misunderstanding. i'm still of the thought its not really possible considering jevons paradox would eventually kick in at some point , but it is interesting to think about nevertheless. cheers.

Bit of an oxymoron when you mention "rational optimism", optimism by nature requires you to be positive and to assume that things will get better with time; even when there is no basis for it. Rationality is looking at the big picture, putting aside your feelings and taking a look at the f...

Sounds like techno-optimism taken to the extreme, techno-faith follows suit. The overwhelming belief that with the power of technology, we can resurrect people who have long since died and decayed is one of, if not the many main notions of Russian Cosmism(another trans-humanist movement) with there ...

oh ok then, so you probably should've led with that, considering the amount of factors that go into trying to survive space(especially when it comes to trained astronauts and even then it's a struggle), i'd say nothing like that is actually going to happen, whatever "augmentations" or &quo...

So you're not actually saying the fermi paradox/drake equation are wrong, but mostly referring to a variation in which the species in question has "ascended" to a higher plane of existence?

Mostly a pipe dream, if there are any "enhancements" or "modifications" that technology is able to perform on humans, chances are it'll mostly be reserved for wealthy individuals, and stay expensive, trickle-down economics is a myth that should be dispelled by now. Regardless, i ...