Election 2024: The Fate of Democracy

303abuser They’ll blame Corbyn

303abuser how likely do you think this is?

Hursty Certain.

benson Certain.

Yet I mention it and I’m some misguided harbinger of doom.

Amps perhaps if you posted your comments alongside a pic of some double D dirtbox you’ll get more agreement?

I won’t be missing any meals that is for sure.

LBD in das haus

Amps I’m not sure it will be in our lifetime in the western world but it is already happening in the developing world

Hursty Unless we come up with a tech solution that doesn’t currently exist (and that is possible I’d guess), it’s when, not if. Governments and their corporate overlords are doing nothing to solve the climate problems. AI is going to cause massive economic disruption in the near to medium term, climate refugees are going to be a thing, food shortages will undoubtedly occur, and there’s no plan to mitigate any of it.

Like I said, we’re fucked. Hopefully not in our lifetimes, but that’s not a guarantee.

Coronavirus 2 will solve a lot of this

Smallman1 I’d assume most of us here on on the good side of the economic curve, we should mostly be fine. It’s definitely one of the reasons we chose not to have kids though.

Do you genuinely believe the world is fucked and we are imminently going to be doomed forever?

Does sound like pure hyperbole to scare the masses

There are obviously degrees of fucked. I don’t know about doomed forever, but clearly both climate change and AI are potential existential threats. How likely is that? I’m not sure anyone knows.

Given how we handled covid from a societal perspective, we don’t exactly seem positioned to deal with either short or long term threats in a coherent manner. Humans do well with immediate consequences, latent impacts just don’t move the needle on our behaviour.

That’s exactly the reason I had kids. So I can laugh at the shit they’re facing

Old-Dutch not if we wear our masks

Old-Dutch That’s exactly the reason I had kids. So I can laugh at the shit they’re facing

Lol!

303abuser fair enough

I think we are just experiencing the transitional period of the digital revolution so everything seems a bit crazy like it did for those who witnessed the agricultural or industrial revolutions

Revolutions take decades and although the digital one will most likely be quicker, it will take time to achieve some resemblance of equilibrium

That’s all true and it will be quicker. The difference is not only the pace of change, but that with exponential tech growth, the pace of change is only going to increase, which is extremely destabilizing. And we’ve never had such widespread and pervasive misinformation governed by a handful of people. This is like nothing humanity has experienced and we frankly have no idea what we’re doing. We’re smart enough to make a mess of things, but not smart enough to plan ahead or actually fix anything.