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Why We Need An Anti-AI Movement Too (thewire.in)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol wat are you talking about? The amount of extractable resources on the moon itself are enough to sustain a thousand humanities

Do you have any idea how much it costs to get to and from the goddamn moon?! There's the reason we don't exactly make a regular thing about it. The costs are astronomical, pun very much intended.

The only thing that gets "used up" is energy

I'm not exactly a physicist, but if you've suddenly solved the problem of entropy then you should contact one and claim your Nobel prize. I'll wait.

But in short, other sources of entertainment + an anti natalist culture + longer lifespans + deviation from the traditional monogamous two partner model would end up lessening the need for having kids.

You're making a lot of assumptions about how how society will develop.

The bourgeoisie are evil, sure. Doesn't mean that they are stupid enough to act against their own interests.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qppZQCReiDg

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Do you have any idea how much it costs to get to and from the goddamn moon?! There's the reason we don't exactly make a regular thing about it. The costs are astronomical, pun very much intended.

No. The costs are astronomical to get TO the moon. Not from it. To get from the moon back to Earth, all you would need is a strong-ish magnetic ramp. The stuff that you would need to send to the moon would be nothing compared to the material that would be sent back.

I'm not exactly a physicist, but if you've suddenly solved the problem of entropy then you should contact one and claim your Nobel prize. I'll wait.

Huh? Energy is the only concern that we have. You can manufacture, destroy and recycle aluminum soda cans forever (almost). You can't do that with energy. Which is why we need to get energy from a low entropy source. We wouldn't have this problem for billions of years, till the heat death gets us (assuming that that theory is real in the first place).

You're making a lot of assumptions about how how society will develop.

I'm merely making projections based on trends in the last few decades. Antinatalism is and will be on the rise, unless religion comes back (which thankfully is unlikely). Medical science is advancing at unprecedented rates. Pair this with breakthroughs in other fields (AI for instance), and you get an ever accelerating series of breakthroughs. Based on this, I see no future where human population would be increasing much.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qppZQCReiDg

Tell me why u don't have socialised healthcare in the US yet. Tell me why you don't have stricter tax laws that close loopholes for billionaires in the US yet. Tell me why unions have such a small footprint in the US. Again, as I said. Had the billionaires been stupid, there would've been socialism everywhere. However, they are smart enough to stay in power and ensure that their own interests are protected.