Yes, we can handle it. — karl stone
If we know what's true, and do what's right in terms of what's true - if we value the sustainability of our existence, by those principles alone, we can handle everything technology has to offer. — karl stone
We have thousands of nukes aimed down our own throats. Are we handling it? — Jake
Except that there is no plan to take us to this level of sanity, and vague dreamy utopian visions have proven incapable of taking us there. — Jake
No offense Karl, but I give up, you are too willing to blatantly ignore reality to take your theories seriously. I'm glad you're on the forum though. — Jake
So, given the collective irrationality argument - yes, we're handling it so far. — karl stone
Thanks for your opinion, but you haven't really come clean, have you? I've asked about your motives for relentlessly banging your doom drum, and you've been less than forthcoming. — karl stone
A closed minded doom monger - who's underlying message is don't hope and don't try. — karl stone
So if I were to walk around all day every day with a loaded gun in my mouth you would consider that a successful management of my handgun, given that the gun hasn't gone off.
See? It's not possible to have a rational discussion with true believers of any stripe. — Jake
Why am I relentlessly addressing the subject of our relationship with knowledge? Because the future of human civilization will be determined by that relationship. — Jake
My message is that we can adapt to the revolutionary new era which the success of science has created if we try. But as your posts illustrate, a great many people instead invest all of their intelligence and effort in to trying to cling to the past. — Jake
You have good intentions. — Jake
You just don't understand that an era of knowledge explosion is an environment very different than an era of knowledge scarcity, requiring a different adaptive response. — Jake
The "more is better" response which was entirely appropriate in an era of knowledge scarcity can not be automatically transferred to a knowledge explosion era just because it's a routine that we're comfortable with. — Jake
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