PhilosophusFuturum

PhilosophusFuturum t1_j30j6au wrote

Yeah I agree with that and have written extensively about it. Everyone draws a line of the amount of technological progress they consider to be acceptable. Conservatives tend to draw that line very early on. As progress is accelerating, we are now crossing the lines drawn by progressive people. My point isn’t about politics, but that we are now beginning to face resistance from people we traditionally haven’t had issues with.

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PhilosophusFuturum t1_j2zut8b wrote

I’m not saying that it’s only progressives doing this, just that it’s also a growing tendency among them. It’s obviously worse among conservatives and will likely remain so for the foreseeable future.

Progressives are beginning to shift more anti-technological progress because of the fact that aging-millennials are a major foundation of the American progressive movement, and the fact that many far-left people have a general sense of cynicism regarding technological advancement because its perpetuated by major corporations, often to fulfill their own corporate interests (this one is justified).

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PhilosophusFuturum t1_j24kv88 wrote

Reply to comment by Dizzlean in The future? Pfffft. by tubulerz1

He’s just behind the times. The meta is no longer denying radical technological advancement because the past few years have disproven that. Now it’s about how it’s apparently a bad thing.

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PhilosophusFuturum t1_j1tbrfb wrote

I assume that you’re talking about this article. As far as I am aware, it went nowhere. It appears to have only been cited once according to research gate and only to point out the fact that it is speculative.

The issue is that we also can’t really test this. The most massive atom we have created so far is Oganesson with an atomic number of 118. We have gotten nowhere near the 145 required to test this; and such an element likely exceeds the superheavy island of stability.

For 115-118 that we have synthesized; no anti-gravitational properties observed as far as I am aware.

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