Nobel Laureates Aim Too Low on Global Poverty

Re:Nobel Laureates Aim Too Low on Global Poverty by paxys on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @12:12PM (#21260087)

There are multiple particle accelerators in operation today that are teaching us more about the universe than scientists in the 60s could imagine. Poverty is decreasing across the globe. Diseases are being wiped out. Infant mortality and child-birth deaths are trending down. We have multiple rovers on moons and planets across the solar system, and are preparing for a manned mission to mars. Different races & genders have opportunities today that they couldn't even dream of in the 60s. Freaking cars are starting to drive themselves.

I can't imagine the thought process of someone who looks at all this progress and comes away with "damn liberals are ruining the world today with their political correctness".

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Re:Nobel Laureates Aim Too Low on Global Poverty by eaenki on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @10:03AM (#21270397)

I don't even know who liberals are. I'm out of politics. Anyway, what you listed is all incremental improvement with the exception of computer vision (which is still in the very early days still). Interstellar travel, colonies in space, traveling x10 faster and reversing ageing are comparable to the scale of the atomic bomb, the first space missions or the microprocessor. You drank the kool aid "everything is progressing so quickly".

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