• mvlad88@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Just imagine where we would be 5-10-15 years from now, if all that AI money would have went into social and environmental projects.

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      1 day ago

      That describes my entire life since adolescence… wondering what kind of society we could have had if we werent governed by sociopaths

      • DiarrheaSommelier@lemmy.ca
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        20 hours ago

        If all the resources we spent blowing shit up and killing innocent people had been put to good use instead, we would be in a Star Trek-esque post-scarcity society by now. Possibly on our way to being Kardashev type 1 society.

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          14 hours ago

          Well, we still need to survive the war with the Klingons and Vulcans before we form the alliance and implement full-on space communism. But we already know we will, so it’s basically just for show.