Comment by njarboe
4 days ago
I think these space projects are great, can create much good will, and give people dangerous things to do that are worth risking the danger for. But war, inequality, and climate mismanagement are political problems that are not going to be solved (if they need to be solved) by science and engineering (the first two at least).
If AGI stages a hostile takeover of all the governments of the world would that count as a technological solution to war and inequality?
For that matter I suppose the terminator timeline also counts. Can't have war and inequality if you don't have humans.
They can absolutely be solved by science and engineering, people just need to stop being so fucking afraid to break the rules to do whats right.
What does inequality even mean? Everyone must be identical? The idea of removing inequality is dystopian.
Solving inequality starts with everyone gets the same upbringing. Imagine designing a boarding school where kids get placed at an early age, and get all the support that they need to basically learn how to have control of the environment around them, while also how to interact with other humans to act as a force multiplier in accomplishing bigger things).
You could do this right now with a lot less money then it seems, the problem is that you have to break ethical grounds - for example, you have to have police or support staff that forcibly take kids from their homes if the parents resist this sort of education for their kids. If you don't do this, then you essentially are back to square one.
Stopping the world's resources from being controlled and directed by a tiny fraction of its population isn't the plot of Harrison Bergeron
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