More of a fun/bait post, on popular delusions about what futuristic societies might be like https://quaslacrimas.wordpress.com/2016/12/27/technofuturist-bs-round-i/ …
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-- a surprising number of people are tricked by at least 1 or 2
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In this post I hit robotic unemployment, interstellar colonization, and cryonics
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Robotic unemployment came up when
@Logo_Daedalus was attaqin the poverty of Chapo's Fully-Automated Luxury Communism -
(Even assuming you agree that FALC is a fairly dreary telos for man, the bad economics underlying FALC are ridiculous in se)
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I won't mention any discussions I've seen about cryonics. I don't want to have to mute six dozen ppl
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I've seen everyone from
@RichardBSpencer to @goethoevsky enthuse about space colonies, but I think they mean exploration, not -
--y'know, Section 8 at relativistic speeds. But overpopulation causing Earth to become "too small" for us = NASA boilerplate
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