In a tweet, what’s a specific future technology you’re excited about? Why? (Ex: end of genetic disease, robotic housekeepers, nuclear powered water desalination, holidays on Olympus Mons, AR assistants to memory, modular housing, walkable cities that run on sunshine, …)
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Agreed. Our baseline when operating in structured groups larger than Twitter echo chambers is creating skyscrapers and going to the moon, not tribalism and aggression. We’re the only eusocial mammalian species, and we’re honestly not that bad at it.
I'm not arguing we're not "frequently amazing," but I would say that we're staggeringly bad at certain types of cooperation problems, some of which create legit existential risk
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That's very true. Crowds don't have brains the way people do. But this gets me right to my point: understanding and motivating an *individual* is super complicated and thus the buy-in more problematic. But a group, when motivated the right way.... That's some fast cool stuff!
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Totally, but the proper layer to work at is super circumstantial... like, in this work I've been doing on child education, it's become increasingly clear that all the levers have fallen into a stable arrangement that's very difficult to move despite the high cost of failing to
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