Re:Your App Won't Save the World
by PeterisP on Saturday February 02, 2013 @06:05AM
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If, as the author states:
a) Many types of major improvements in society and life in general aren't happening because they would require change in human nature;
b) Human nature has a tendency to not change, because it's innate to human sapiens and actions like educating "what could be best", moral "brainwashing" etc have only limited effect;
Then you still don't need to conclude that "world will not change" - it suggests an argument that you may need to change homo sapiens to make the world better. There are tech fields that have potential to change that in the near future, such as biochemistry (mind altering drugs); AI research; and genetic engineering [of humans].
These directions do seem disturbing, but that alone won't prevent them from happening. I mean, gulags and genocide are also disturbing but they happen anyway all over the world every decade. So ignoring ways to change homo sapiens won't help, but we have to discuss on how to manage it so that the result is morally/socially good.
a) Many types of major improvements in society and life in general aren't happening because they would require change in human nature;
b) Human nature has a tendency to not change, because it's innate to human sapiens and actions like educating "what could be best", moral "brainwashing" etc have only limited effect;
Then you still don't need to conclude that "world will not change" - it suggests an argument that you may need to change homo sapiens to make the world better. There are tech fields that have potential to change that in the near future, such as biochemistry (mind altering drugs); AI research; and genetic engineering [of humans].
These directions do seem disturbing, but that alone won't prevent them from happening. I mean, gulags and genocide are also disturbing but they happen anyway all over the world every decade. So ignoring ways to change homo sapiens won't help, but we have to discuss on how to manage it so that the result is morally/socially good.