New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Is human technology advancing faster than human wisdom sustainable?
Ask HN: Is human technology advancing faster than human wisdom sustainable?
2 by oatmeal1 | 1 comments on Hacker News.
I think it is easy to argue human technology has advanced far faster than human wisdom. We can make vaccines, land on the moon, and use particle accelerators, but struggle to achieve peace, handle overfishing of the oceans, or just get enough exercise to be healthy. Our technology is often used to our detriment, whether it be used to create more powerful weapons to kill each other, or just to take advantage of our brain's reward system so we spend more time doomscrolling and clicking ads. It seems with already having potential extinction events likely only averted by the individual actions of Stanislov Petrov and Vasili Arkhipov, humans have already created technology far past what our wisdom allows us to safely use. Even at our current level of technology we are at substantial risk. With new technology such as AI being more difficult to understand, are we doomed to eventually end our own existence?
2 by oatmeal1 | 1 comments on Hacker News.
I think it is easy to argue human technology has advanced far faster than human wisdom. We can make vaccines, land on the moon, and use particle accelerators, but struggle to achieve peace, handle overfishing of the oceans, or just get enough exercise to be healthy. Our technology is often used to our detriment, whether it be used to create more powerful weapons to kill each other, or just to take advantage of our brain's reward system so we spend more time doomscrolling and clicking ads. It seems with already having potential extinction events likely only averted by the individual actions of Stanislov Petrov and Vasili Arkhipov, humans have already created technology far past what our wisdom allows us to safely use. Even at our current level of technology we are at substantial risk. With new technology such as AI being more difficult to understand, are we doomed to eventually end our own existence?
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