I've stopped caring about new tech and become more political because in general we have sufficient technology to make everyone's lives better.
The problem isn't that we don't have enough or good enough technology. The problem is that the people in power aren't interested in making everyone's lives better.
@malcircuit yep how I feel about the AI hype lately. folks not focused on solving one of our top pre-existing probs. but at best making them worse or adding new ones
I believe climate and democracy threats are the top. and deserve lion's share of talent and resources. and they likely dont need fundamentally new tech. just big political changes and social shifts. to extent software engineering for example, can help with that, great, folks should try
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