Do you mean to say with these macro statistics and Pinker-style excuse mantra for the haves, that for instance the 42.6 million Americans over age 45 with chronic loneliness, should just shut up and be happy?https://wb.md/2FKXnuH
We should wake up every day and feel colossal gratitude that we were born after the industrial revolution.https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/992902636998291456 …
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Um, no. But way to miss the point.
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It's a good point, but I'd also like to make a graph of human-caused suffering over time, "Everything was close to zero for a very long time, and then factory farming happened."
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Fair point! Hopefully we can ensure that net utility across all sentient life follows the same exponential growth curve as the human well-being curve -- though with a lamentable 150-year delay.
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Also true, hopefully, if we solve the AI risk problems first.
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I had a genetic heart defect and had my valve replaced, and everyday I hear the metallic valve click. Whenever I stop to listen I know had I been born even 60 years ago I'd be dead.
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Very true - and political crazies take it all for granted, knowing nothing of the eons in which nature killed most human children. Students today are taught nothing of the world of work: jobs, industry, technology, capitalism, trade.
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100 (1000?) years from now, we may question if we were measuring the right things.
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Of course. Everything is on a ongoing evolutionary continuum.
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