Re:Scientists’ warning on affluence
by TomSwirly on Sunday June 21, 2020 @09:12AM
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Humans won't get it until they get their faces rubbed in it, and then it will be decades too late.
We are evolved to react incredibly well at about a 100ms threshold. Through agriculture, humans have taught themselves to plan in terms of a whole year. Beyond that people can't really understand.
If you offered most people this deal, "I'll give you $10 billion today but in exchange the whole world is destroyed 150 years from now," I think 90% of humans would take it.
Re:Scientists’ warning on affluence
by Kye on Sunday June 21, 2020 @09:44AM
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I would take it because there's no way the person offering could build a system (human or technological) that would last 150 years. Because you're right about the ability of humans to plan that far ahead.
We are evolved to react incredibly well at about a 100ms threshold. Through agriculture, humans have taught themselves to plan in terms of a whole year. Beyond that people can't really understand.
If you offered most people this deal, "I'll give you $10 billion today but in exchange the whole world is destroyed 150 years from now," I think 90% of humans would take it.
"I'll be dead anyway."