Two things that can both be true: 1. The world is getting better, by most metrics of human well-being 2. The risk of a major catastrophe is going up over time Yet I often see ppl try to dismiss 2 by saying "The doomsayers are wrong, things are getting better, [argument for 1]"
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Entropy isn't going to become a bubble burster for at least trillions of years, assuming no black hole/vacuum mining. It is odd to describe anything we're doing as cheating entropy; it's still increasing as expected
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We are sucking negentropy from our environment at a rate that far exceeds sustainability, and we won't escape this gravity well in time. Also, our sun burns out in ~5Bn years, not trillions.
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