A lot of humans fake it until they make it. A lot of humans are lazy. A lot of humans are given responsibility of things that they are unqualified for. A lot of humans make mistakes.
The military, for all its funding and all its training and all its planning, has lost multiple nuclear weapons, on American soil.
We are imperfect machines who aspire to build more perfect versions of ourselves, through children and now through AI. By many measures, we’ve succeeded. The progress will almost certainly continue. The question is, when will it be good enough for you to embrace it despite its imperfections?
This is my philosophical take on it… We’d be better off admitting that we rely on nature for almost everything we need, no matter how great an iPhone or ChatGPT is. Some “peasant” still grows your food and the “dumb plants” still produce your air, the more complicated we make things, even with AI augmentation, the more problems we will continue to cause ourselves.
Look at what wave done to soil, the oceans, we’re likely on the wrong track. Maybe it’s even unrecoverable.
I think we can have a much more advanced society , but we need to slow down a lot and do things more in harmony with the natural world and out our egos aside. We’d probably have a much better quality of life for doing so.
The military, for all its funding and all its training and all its planning, has lost multiple nuclear weapons, on American soil.
We are imperfect machines who aspire to build more perfect versions of ourselves, through children and now through AI. By many measures, we’ve succeeded. The progress will almost certainly continue. The question is, when will it be good enough for you to embrace it despite its imperfections?