Technology improvements are why I’m reluctant to ctb

[steviewonder]

think about it. We aren't Chinese peasants living in 1553. We live in a time of exponential improvement. This is what's keeping me on this earth. I'm hoping I can solve all the issues I have within a couple decades.

It'll take a while though and I really doubt I'll be able to wait it out

 

[Snake of Eden]

I dont know what your issues are but I would be cautious with overly being optimistic when it comes to what technology can solve. Yes advancement are accelarting. Yes once insolvable problems are being solved but we can't really tell where we are headed. If you are sticking around because you are curious so be it but I wouldnt be too hopeful that we will solve any of real problems that make people ctb. If anything it seems we are heading to dystopian future

 

[HiImPaul]

think about it. We aren't Chinese peasants living in 1553. We live in a time of exponential improvement. This is what's keeping me on this earth. I'm hoping I can solve all the issues I have within a couple decades.

It'll take a while though and I really doubt I'll be able to wait it out

Yeah I'm sure they'll find some way to completely cure depression at some point. But I feel like that'll take too long for me.

 

[Feeding Pigeons]

I don't want to take away your hope, but technological improvements, specifically the ones that can really help and push humans forward? Tend to either "disappear" or get transformed into something lucrative. You have no idea how much further along we'd be if the actual goal was to improve technology as much as possible.

 

[Sherri]

There is on Netflix a series of episodes, my favourite is Jan Sunipero. If technology could make it that far in my lifetime. I would be the happiest person , give it a watch if you have time one day. Oh and edit, the name of the series is Blackmirror. Enjoy, you quite up for a ride of what the future might like.

 

[Laowaiboss]

Hopium is a powerful thing. Technology could solve so many of our problems if used right for the greater good of all mankind and not for the benefits of a few selects. Unfortunately and seeing where the world is currently headed, the future is far more likely to be a dystopian technocratic nightmare than a social and ecological paradise.

The #1 problem we are facing is biodiversity collapse and the people in charge don't realize or don't want to realize the sheer scale and danger that this problem poses. Climate scientists have been warning the political elites about climate change and biodiversity collapse since 1972, but their warnings have fallen on deaf ears. The generation in charge at the time chose to ignore those problems thinking that the next generation would find a solution to it, and the next generation did the same.

We are the third generation and we are running out of time, climate change has now become a self sustaining feedback loop as increased temperatures melt the permafrost, that contains methane, that itself increases temperatures even more, that melts even more permafrost, that releases even more methane, etc, etc... the solution now isn't just about pumping less carbon into the atmosphere but about actively capturing methane from the atmosphere, the problem has become much bigger than it was just 15 years ago.

Climate change will lead to an already well undergoing biodiversity collapse that will result in the death of ecosystems and the collapse of the natural environment that sustains us all. Those who believe that humans can exist without plants and animals around them are delusional. And we are nowhere near replacing our bodies with robotic bodies, or transferring our consciousness into computers, or some other transhuman science fiction fantasy, nowhere near it.

 

[meetapple]

This is one of The only things that keeps me going. But I don't have that much time remaining in any event.

 

[SuicidallyCurious]

What improvement ?

Seems all the same to me since about 2006/2007.

This is a fantasy people use to keep going. Maybe a useful one but still a fantasy

- no cancer cure
- no interstellar space station
- no moon colony
- no longevity take off . in fact it has gone in reverse in the US and former Soviet Union and is plateauing elsewhere around age 80
- crippling debt

 

[Insomniac]

We live in a time of exponential improvement

lol

 

[Fadeawaaaay]

And I think many others will benefit and I wish them well. My Challenges are not solved by technology….

 

[rationalis]

Humans don't appreciate what we already have. The need to consume. Space travel should be an intellectual curiosity, but instead it is more extraction of resources.

 

[Pluto]

Sometimes technology is actually the problem. For example, Mark Zuckerberg's technology to create a hostile political climate, China's technology to suppress democracy, or clever ways to extra ever more fossil fuels.

Technology itself is morally neutral. What is needed is vast improvements in the narcissism of the human species.

 

[4eyebiped]

There was a period of time where a lot of people who had smallpox wanted to CTB. There was another where people who had failing hearts, livers, lungs wanted to. There are a lot of cures that are taken for granted. At one point cataracts completely occluded one's vision and many wanted to CTB because of this. I am not preaching staying around waiting for cures, that is all up to the individual, but I wouldn't dismiss the advances in science and the potentials ahead. I for sure wouldn't crush someone's hopes that was waiting and hopeful for a cure.

In the end whatever gets you through the day, more power to you and it.

This isn't a comprehensive list by any means. Just a quick one I dug up. Worth a quick scroll through.

https://hms.harvard.edu/about-hms/history-hms/timeline-discovery

 

[SuicidallyCurious]

There was a period of time where a lot of people who had smallpox wanted to CTB. There was another where people who had failing hearts, livers, lungs wanted to. There are a lot of cures that are taken for granted. At one point cataracts completely occluded one's vision and many wanted to CTB because of this. I am not preaching staying around waiting for cures, that is all up to the individual, but I wouldn't dismiss the advances in science and the potentials ahead. I for sure wouldn't crush someone's hopes that was waiting and hopeful for a cure.

In the end whatever gets you through the day, more power to you and it.

This isn't a comprehensive list by any means. Just a quick one I dug up. Worth a quick scroll through.

https://hms.harvard.edu/about-hms/history-hms/timeline-discovery

I think the argument is no good.
The humans made x things less bad.

 

[4eyebiped]

I think the argument is no good.
The humans made x things less bad.

Perhaps, my argument was no good because I wasn't arguing. Things are curable that weren't before. Things are treatable that weren't before. So on and so forth. There is nothing to argue, those are simply facts. I never said that any specific problem that someone here had, is or would be curable. My post is a generic one and one that has interesting information in it, for some.