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On May 04 2010 07:52 HazMat wrote:
I can't see humans getting a job in the future. Robots will do everything, including making more robots. It'll be pretty hard to live without work.
God I wish YouTube had this speech.
"The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is clear: To build and maintain those robots."
http://www.123video.nl/playvideos.asp?MovieID=508633
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Lol, humanity sucks at improving in the most efficient manner. Sometimes we improve, most of the time, we run into solid brick walls conceived from our own selfishness.
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On May 04 2010 08:15 buhhy wrote:
Lol, humanity sucks at improving in the most efficient manner. Sometimes we improve, most of the time, we run into solid brick walls conceived from our own selfishness.
There's about 4000 years of human progress that says otherwise. Living conditions have improved at an exponential rate, along with our body of knowledge. Barring some sort of 6-sigma catastrophe, I think the human race will be all good for at least another millennium.
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On May 04 2010 08:31 InsideTheBox wrote:Show nested quote +On May 04 2010 08:15 buhhy wrote:
Lol, humanity sucks at improving in the most efficient manner. Sometimes we improve, most of the time, we run into solid brick walls conceived from our own selfishness. There's about 4000 years of human progress that says otherwise. Living conditions have improved at an exponential rate, along with our body of knowledge. Barring some sort of 6-sigma catastrophe, I think the human race will be all good for at least another millennium.
I said in the most efficient manner. That 4000 years of progress could probably be attained in half or a third of the time by a selfless race.
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On May 04 2010 08:15 buhhy wrote:
Lol, humanity sucks at improving in the most efficient manner. Sometimes we improve, most of the time, we run into solid brick walls conceived from our own selfishness.
uhh, ok
Sometimes when I read history books I am astounded at how much better things are today. Sure, we are not the most efficient, but to deny that thing have gotten better over the last 100 years would be sheer idiocy.
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[QUOTE]On May 04 2010 08:34 buhhy wrote:
[QUOTE]On May 04 2010 08:31 InsideTheBox wrote:
[QUOTE]On May 04 2010 08:15 buhhy wrote:
I said in the most efficient manner. That 4000 years of progress could probably be attained in half or a third of the time by a selfless race.[/QUOTE]
and in 50 years by a race of psychic-mega-savants....your point is?
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i just find there to be little correlation between technological advances and a purported advancement/refinement of human nature. So you can have a higher quality of life, physiologically, through advances in food production and such, but I don't find it connected to an overall higher happiness level.
I guess what i'm trying to say is the more things change, the more they stay the same.
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intrigue
Washington, D.C9935 Posts
selfishness is itself a driving force for progress, you know
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On May 03 2010 20:09 Warrior Madness wrote:It's gonna be awesome bro. MY LIFE FOR AIURRTHHH. But in all seriousness it's going to be unfathomable for us to imagine how people will think, act, live and even look like in the future. Can you picture taking someone from the 16th century and showing them all the marvels of an iPhone? It'd be beyond their comprehension. It'll be the same with us and whatever happens in the future. Also, what's even more fascinating is I was reading physicstoday and based on computer simulations and certain scientific trials they made the best possible prediction science can give us today on how humans will presumably evolve in the next few millennium. Your average male today: + Show Spoiler +phase 1: + Show Spoiler +Phase 2: + Show Spoiler +Phase 3: + Show Spoiler +Phase 4: + Show Spoiler +
omg i laughed... too good
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On May 04 2010 08:37 sob3k wrote:
and in 50 years by a race of psychic-mega-savants....your point is?
That humanity has hardly advanced in the most efficient manner. Remember religion? Remember how it held by science by several hundred years?
However, we haven't had a benchmark to compare our progress to, except primitive lifeforms on Earth, thus it is easy to say humanity has gone a lone way.
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On May 04 2010 08:39 intrigue wrote:
selfishness is itself a driving force for progress, you know
It's only a driving force to progress in a way that can benefit you the most, and that occasionally coincides with what is good for the community.
Of course, I'm not expecting humanity to be selfless, since our instincts tell us to cater to ourselves first.
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Norway28815 Posts
optimistic because if you go backwards 2000 years and then compare living conditions 100 years after that in succession, you will find that they have generally improved for each century.
pessimistic because the more technologically advanced we become the more likely complete or near complete extinction becomes
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I'm kinda optimistic about the future, and all the new technology, but I just hope that there won't be like 500 more "End of the world" days like 2012.
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Personal jet packs will be as common as Vespa scooters in 10 years.
Optimistic for sure
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yes we've had lots of wars and there's lots of reasons to think we will continue to have them. but if we measure success in those area by violence we can see that violence has reduced considerably over time. even ww2 and recent breakouts in war is nothing compared to the amount of violence that took place in the past. violence still does occur yes, but it isn't as much as you think and a lot less than compared to the past. when we're exposed to things frequently like plane crashes and violence we think they happen more than they do, this is called the availability bias/error. of course the media enhances that for us.
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On May 04 2010 09:03 TheZelot wrote:
I'm kinda optimistic about the future, and all the new technology, but I just hope that there won't be like 500 more "End of the world" days like 2012.
well you'll get your wish if 2012 really is the end of the world
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If we can deal with the overpopulation issue then I am optimistic. I strongly believe our race will survive indefinitely, but whether or not we have some shitty times ahead of us has yet to be determined imo.
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The consensus on this forum is merely aping the Gibbonesque faith in perpetual modernity, two hundred years later, with inferior eloquence, inferior learning, and shallower perspective.
Proof that even the most brilliant men become the fools of time.
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On May 03 2010 20:53 Reason wrote:Show nested quote +On May 03 2010 20:09 Warrior Madness wrote:It's gonna be awesome bro. MY LIFE FOR AIURRTHHH. But in all seriousness it's going to be unfathomable for us to imagine how people will think, act, live and even look like in the future. Can you picture taking someone from the 16th century and showing them all the marvels of an iPhone? It'd be beyond their comprehension. It'll be the same with us and whatever happens in the future. Also, what's even more fascinating is I was reading physicstoday and based on computer simulations and certain scientific trials they made the best possible prediction science can give us today on how humans will presumably evolve in the next few millennium. Your average male today: + Show Spoiler +phase 1: + Show Spoiler +Phase 2: + Show Spoiler +Phase 3: + Show Spoiler +Phase 4: + Show Spoiler + Some funny pictures man, but you are totally wrong. Nothing is beyond our comprehension. We have already imagined way beyond what we will ever achieve. Maybe millions of years in the future if we are still going we might somehow advance past the most absurd science fiction but even then it's still conceivable, I bet sci-fi gonna be pretty fucked up in 50 years lol.
Never ever say never. Remember that quote from the head of the British patent office back in the late 1800's "Everything that can be invented has been invented"?
You're falling into that trap of limiting your mind.
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