Post ARyiE5I5KBCFiKC2vA by hankgreen@mas.to
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(DIR) Post #ARyiE5I5KBCFiKC2vA by hankgreen@mas.to
2023-01-24T14:38:23Z
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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.
(DIR) Post #ARyjBdvQCKNsDSzaoS by johnobriant@kind.social
2023-01-24T15:15:45Z
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@hankgreen I keep thinking that this is the time we need to be considering the future of work - what it looks like and what role it holds in our lives. It's so central to our identity as Americans, and it's going to be so hard to dislodge that.
(DIR) Post #ARyjIUneWXhHwRctCy by ThaMunsta@mastodon.nervesocket.com
2023-01-24T16:17:54Z
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@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.
(DIR) Post #ARyjIVMkQ3lnhI2uuW by dracoMetallium@pleroma.soykaf.com
2023-01-24T19:59:41.940208Z
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@ThaMunsta Not in a capitalist world.
(DIR) Post #AS4BXQ1ELnrZxqgHSa by brentg@mastodon.social
2023-01-24T15:59:02Z
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@hankgreen Material growth is necessary, but not sufficient. Averages are misleading. A powerful minority has shown itself to be insatiable, and profoundly lacking in ideas beyond higher investment returns.Technology serves human intention. I know that is part of what you mean. We are failing to restrain destructive intentions. We lack spiritual/moral consensus. We have over-fitted for material success and competition. We can’t seem to get along. Thus predictions of increasing conflict.
(DIR) Post #AS4BXQRSmGqZHCxELg by jautero@climatejustice.social
2023-01-25T11:56:23Z
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@brentg @hankgreen Is material growth really necessary and when does it become excess? Same economic growth that allows you to buy a second car may allow billionaire to buy a second yacht.Theoretically, if there is no limit to material growth, eventually you will also be able to buy a second yacht. More realistically, if buying second yacht is excessive to you, buying a second car is excessive to a person in Global South.We need to re-evaluate our values and basic assumptions.
(DIR) Post #AS4BXR0Ch6dV0xCyUy by brentg@mastodon.social
2023-01-25T13:38:00Z
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@jautero @hankgreen It is necessary if we want to expand human reach into space. I don't actually know whether we could simply redistribute the production capacity, including energy, to adequately meet all the reasonable needs of all people, and also restore the biosphere.It seems like we could, right now. But that relies on fossil fuels. The future demands a new energy regime. Either nuclear power, or a return to muscle power, since "renewables" aren't renewable (they use rare minerals).
(DIR) Post #AS4BXRMtKkmg9Jp5rU by jautero@climatejustice.social
2023-01-27T06:46:31Z
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@brentg @hankgreen Space colonisation is part of same "Jetsons" future as jetpacks and flying cars. That future was killed by 70s oil crisis. Even quite literally, since it killed the production of futuristic Casa Finlandia houses. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venturo