CMV: "we cant have infinite growth in a finite world" is a dumb harmful idea
Why its dumb:
That is the whole point of technology! If resources are limited we find better ways to do valuable things with the existing ones. We have been doing this for centuries (or, arguably, since before we became homo sapiens sapiens)
There might be a limit to that, a point in which our technology is so great no significant improvement is possible (or at least not practical). But we are nowhere close to that. And any limits we might theorize today are based on our current understanding of physics, which is likely to change in the long timeframe it would take for us to reach the limit
And we have no reason to restrict ourselves to the resources of earth. We can - and should - colonize space. The moon. The planets, the asteroids and then the stars. And while we are at it we should do a dyson swarm of space stations around the sun. With multiple copies of earth biome if we want
Why its harmful:
It implies growth is bad. It isnt. Growth is what allows us to improve peoples lives. It means more food for the hungry, more medicine for the sick, more air conditioning between the tropics, more yatchs to the rich. If we want those that live in this planet to thrive we need to find way
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I have been worrying about AI making us obsolete but I realized something that gave me hope
I have been going down the rabbit hole lately reading everything I can about Artificial Super Intelligence. Honestly it started to terrify me. We are building minds that will eventually be a billion times faster and more knowledgeable than us. It made me ask the question a lot of us are probably thinking. If the machine can do everything better than us like writing and coding and reasoning then what is the point of us? Do we even matter anymore?
I am a researcher at heart so I tried to look at this logically. And I hit a realization that actually gave me a lot of hope. I wanted to share it here in case anyone else is feeling that existential dread.
We are confusing intelligence with consciousness.
We have built a silicon brain that can process information at the speed of light. It is an optimization engine. It can simulate a symphony or model a cure for disease or generate a poem. But there is zero evidence that it experiences any of it.
Think of it this way. We have built the ultimate race car. It is faster than any human could ever run. It is stronger. It is perfect. But a car has no desire to drive itself. It feels no thrill of speed. It has no fear of crashing. It has no destin
I sexted / made plans with a hinge guy as a virgin and I feel disgusted with myself
Hi all,
So I (22F) recently downloaded hinge because I’m a senior in college and have never been on a date, and I really wanted to start just trying to have fun my final semester. The furthest I’ve gone with anyone’s just making out and some touching, but nothing more. I really do have a strong sexual desire though and want to explore it, so I’m on the app!
Anyway, I matched with this guy and he’s super sweet and I like him. I don’t want a boyfriend but I do want to experiment sexually. We started talking and eventually a couple days later it started to get a little heated, we started talking about having fun together. I wanted to make it clear though that I don’t have a lot of experience in intimacy and he was super nice about it. He said that it would be super casual and low stakes and if all I wanted to do was kiss that would be fine. That made me feel better and want him more lol.
And now tonight we were talking and it started getting sexual again. And this time I was really
Feeling it so I was like yknow what fuck it let’s have fun. I did NOT send any photos or ask for any so it was literally just dirty texts, but now I feel grossed out by myself and the fact I did that. We ta
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