I feel that it may not be in LessWrong standards to simply reply with a broad sense of deep, empathetic agreement so I will instead quote what I feel is a truly beautiful reflection from Erik Hoel on this, borrowing from his "How to prevent the coming inhuman future":
"Personally, I’m on the side of Shakespeare. For it is not such a bad future, in the hands of humans. Humans after all, invented space travel and ended slavery and came up with antibiotics and snow plows and baby formula. We patch holes in clothing. We sing along to the radio in cars. We’re cu... (read more)
I feel that it may not be in LessWrong standards to simply reply with a broad sense of deep, empathetic agreement so I will instead quote what I feel is a truly beautiful reflection from Erik Hoel on this, borrowing from his "How to prevent the coming inhuman future":
"Personally, I’m on the side of Shakespeare. For it is not such a bad future, in the hands of humans. Humans after all, invented space travel and ended slavery and came up with antibiotics and snow plows and baby formula. We patch holes in clothing. We sing along to the radio in cars. We’re cu... (read more)