The Anthropocene and the Near Future: Crash Course Big History #9
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Date: 2022-04-04
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Melon
Honestly I hope we get artificial enhancements to how smart we are either genetic or implants or whatever, doesn't matter. But at the rate we're going. 300 years ago brand new physics principles could be come up with by some farmer access to a library, 100 years ago and only the top in the field of physics working alone for months at a time could add anything new to physics. And now we need projects costing 10s of billions of dollars with teams of hundreds of the best and brightest working for years or decades to make the same level of advancements. Just how hard will it be in another 100 years?
If we don't get just plain more intelligent, then some time in the future we could reach the point where people were taught from birth math and physics, working diligently every single day of their lives, to finally catch up to the forefront of some unreasonably specific subset of their field when they're 85.
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Honestly I hope we get artificial enhancements to how smart we are either genetic or implants or whatever, doesn't matter. But at the rate we're going. 300 years ago brand new physics principles could be come up with by some farmer access to a library, 100 years ago and only the top in the field of physics working alone for months at a time could add anything new to physics. And now we need projects costing 10s of billions of dollars with teams of hundreds of the best and brightest working for years or decades to make the same level of advancements. Just how hard will it be in another 100 years?
If we don't get just plain more intelligent, then some time in the future we could reach the point where people were taught from birth math and physics, working diligently every single day of their lives, to finally catch up to the forefront of some unreasonably specific subset of their field when they're 85.
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David
No, its a relentless decrease in complexity and life continues to worsen for the web of life and not without effect on human beings carrying this civilization on their backs. As affluence increases so does poverty.
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No, its a relentless decrease in complexity and life continues to worsen for the web of life and not without effect on human beings carrying this civilization on their backs. As affluence increases so does poverty.
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Fran
I'm just discovering this series in quarantine, but episodes 4-9 are essentially my degree of Environmental Science (specifically this episode) and if you're stuck on a major to take, I'd suggest this one: )
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I'm just discovering this series in quarantine, but episodes 4-9 are essentially my degree of Environmental Science (specifically this episode) and if you're stuck on a major to take, I'd suggest this one: )
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Danny
You ever think how awful it is that one man ilon Musk Jeff vezos Bill Gates in profit by such Ward margins wild using technology that took thousands of years and millions of people to develop?
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You ever think how awful it is that one man ilon Musk Jeff vezos Bill Gates in profit by such Ward margins wild using technology that took thousands of years and millions of people to develop?
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Dean
Glad I don't have children. Let's hope we do get through, and not lose our freedom forever. Theres no going back to the drawing board now. People have to choose
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Glad I don't have children. Let's hope we do get through, and not lose our freedom forever. Theres no going back to the drawing board now. People have to choose
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MoriaDwarf27
I'm confused. I am not sure how a global catastrophe can wipe out 100% of the humans on Earth. That is extraordinarily hard to do.
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I'm confused. I am not sure how a global catastrophe can wipe out 100% of the humans on Earth. That is extraordinarily hard to do.
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Cedric
The only way geologists can be convinced that Anthropocene has begun is from one thing we should really solve in near future. Plastic.
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The only way geologists can be convinced that Anthropocene has begun is from one thing we should really solve in near future. Plastic.
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Alexander
Sorry for nitpicking but estimates for deaths in WWII keeps getting higher every year. Last I heard it was around 70 million or 75.
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Sorry for nitpicking but estimates for deaths in WWII keeps getting higher every year. Last I heard it was around 70 million or 75.
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Claudio
Not gonna talk about the 100+ million killed by communism? Does your machine kills communists/marxists too or are you paid by them?
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Not gonna talk about the 100+ million killed by communism? Does your machine kills communists/marxists too or are you paid by them?
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