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Re:The Last Question by Issac Asimov [pdf] by willis936 on Thursday June 16, 2022 @07:51AM (#31764901)
Why bet against optimism? If you're right you and everyone else is better off. If you're wrong it doesn't matter because you and everyone else will be dead.
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Re:The Last Question by Issac Asimov [pdf] by Ambolia on Thursday June 16, 2022 @11:27AM (#31767197)
A collapse can mean many things, not just that we will all die. It may just means that 80-90% of the population will have to work in food production.
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Re:The Last Question by Issac Asimov [pdf] by freiherr on Thursday June 16, 2022 @12:20PM (#31767838)
That bet doesn't really have any high impact on my personal life. It's just what I consider the most likely scenario. Other than that I live in a normal pragmatic way as a programmer even though I don't believe the tech I work on is going to save the world or allow us to conquer the stars or whatever.

And we're all gonna die eventually.

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