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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(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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is space exploration more benign way to fund tech development than perpetual war in mid east? or does it lead to same result?
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That's a very interesting question - but is there any conceivable way to find out?
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i think it holds appeal for some ppl. like steam punks, they try to imagine a situation where technology is 'wonder-ful'
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.@carnapbot2000 i suppose that is the real question - can technology ever be wonderful?
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the biggest problem w/ utopianism is how utterly hollow it really is. Disillusioning realization.
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A society's happiness is not material, it is rooted in human feelings of belonging and validation.
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True. & that was Cam's point. But I'm not even at that level of complexity, I'm just raging at the illogic here
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True. Dismantling faulty economic fantasy of poli-idealism is good. I prefer looking at cognitive flaws.
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Right. This post is about identifying the substantive errors, not bringing them under general categories.
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