for - AI - futures - two possible directions - dystopian or not - Yuval Noah Harari

• for: plan B, climate futures, dystopian future, civilization collapse

• title: If We’ve Lost the Climate War, What’s Plan B?

• subtitle: Why a carbon tax won’t save us, and what’s next.
• author: Crawford Kilian

• date: Nov 22, 2023

• summary

  • a good article that shows the complexity and unpredictability of a collapse scenario and system justification theory, which sounds like the boiling frog syndrome

• Mary Harrington makes a good point
  • about the dystopian possibility if major biological hurdles are removed,
    • such as human aging
    • witness the trend of cryogenic freezing of bodies
      • which only the elites can afford
  • pervasive inequality skews the utopian vision towards market realities
    • the rich currently have access to the latest biomedical technologies that can extend / enhance life and human wellbeing
    • the vast majority, the poor don't have access to it
    • why would this change if transhumanism produces a cure for aging?
    • such a technology would enable elites to outlive the rest of us even longer!

ReconfigBehSci. (2021, November 2). @jeremy_hume personally, I’d consider it a natural, considerate, and moral response to avoid contact with others when carrying an infection that can be dangerous to others. So what seems dystopian to me, is not doing so, and not creating the social/financial conditions that allow it. [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1455499076850655235

Yuan, L. (2020, May 27). Amnesia Nation: Why China Has Forgotten Its Coronavirus Outbreak. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/business/china-coronavirus-amnesia.html