mitigate the psychological downsides of civilization, allowing people to eventually get the suffering reductions without the
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Replying to @HbdNrx
psychological dissatisfaction. Finally, civilization is our only hope for eventually escaping Earth and the exploding sun
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Nevertheless, I have some sympathy for the primitivists, and I think they have some important contributions.
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Cutting through many other issues: you say lack of death/suffering is adv of civ, but refusal to allow death/suffering is root prob!
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We could conceivably reduce suffering in a way that doesn't mean the destruction of civilization.Most is not actually helpful
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Can we indefinitely prevent deaths from starvation and disease without bringing on far worse disasters?
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some deaths, at least, I think we can. need to limit who is eligible
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Right. But broadly speaking, the "obvious" advantages of tech ppl point to first are the most fundamental source of modern problems!
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Any attempt to adapt social mechanisms to new tech which doesn't start w/ massive +++ in death rate is moving around the deck chairs
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