It seems like, for the last 30 years of my life, we didn’t really need to spend much time struggling with what to do with the long-term future of humanity. The idea in my head has always been “what folks around me currently have, but for more people, and using less stuff.”

If fusion is ever going to be a thing, if energy production keeps getting cheaper, if AI is contributing significantly to the knowledge economy…that’s just not gonna be enough of a vision anymore.

@hankgreen
Maybe unpopular opinion but, can we just go hard with all this? Get energy production super sustainable. Let AI take over all our jobs. Open source all the things. People just go spend time with each other, contribute to anything they are passionate about and we all stop being so hateful and greedy. Oversimplified I suppose.
@ThaMunsta Not in a capitalist world.