Desperate_Food7354 t1_j9ih27y wrote on February 22, 2023 at 5:04 AM

Reply to comment by Borrowedshorts in Does anyone else have unrelenting hope for the technological singularity because they’ve lost faith in everything else? by bablebooee

Great! There are many people suffering who could benefit greatly, i’m sure the poor orphan boy with untreatable cancer will have greater odds than not every time increment exponential progress is made.

Borrowedshorts t1_j9ilkr0 wrote on February 22, 2023 at 5:50 AM

Something possibly being better for 1% of the population does not make up for the suffering of 99%.

Desperate_Food7354 t1_j9imfm8 wrote on February 22, 2023 at 5:59 AM

right, only 1% of the us population has access to personal computers

Borrowedshorts t1_j9k6dmq wrote on February 22, 2023 at 4:10 PM

Not what we were even talking about dude. Especially when you shifted the conversationto begin with... We were talking about the 1% of people who theoretically could have their life extended, but still would require a substantial series of effects for that to occur. Is that worth the suffering of the other 99% of people?