The Legendary Dragon Alephwyr, named Alephwyr, BA

a plane flying through the sky is realized

All progress is an accident that occurred while the unwashed filthy masses weren't paying attention. Whenever they are paying attention they prevent anything good from happening.

maybe! counterpoint: elon has the spotlight, and might even get us to mars

We don't need to get to Mars, we need secure mind uploading

eh

What the fuck is Mars going to do but perpetuate all the fundamental problems with the human race?

the fundamental problems human face are ignorance and conflict not sure how mind uploading solves either of these

1. All known forms of ignorance can be trivially resolved 2. Post scarcity economics reduces the need for conflict substantially