I think our core crux here is that if this is true, I would rather tackle it from the “ever accelerating knowledge explosion” side or the “violent” side rather than the “men” side.
Ok, that’s cool. To each their own of course. But we don’t really have to choose, we can investigate both at the same time.
Should you start writing about the knowledge explosion side of things you will find it just as challenging as the “world without men” side. Search for my article “Our Relationship With Knowledge” on this site, it’s been down voted like crazy, no engagement at all. That’s pretty normal.
The science community in particular (those who have the most cultural authority on such issues) will view your writing on limiting the knowledge explosion much the same way the Catholic Church viewed atheists in the 12th century. You will be dismissed, ridiculed, scorned, deleted, banned etc. But probably not burned at the stake, so that’s good. :-)
If I was pressed to choose, I’d probably agree the “world without men” idea makes people more hysterical. But a notion that we can’t have never ending unlimited goodies from the knowledge explosion does not exactly delight people, to say the least.
Both of these ideas are wildly ambitious. Neither has much of a chance until MAYBE after some large historical event which undermines the assumption of the group consensus that we can somehow magically have our cake and eat it too, radical change for the better, without radical change.
Ok, that’s cool. To each their own of course. But we don’t really have to choose, we can investigate both at the same time.
Should you start writing about the knowledge explosion side of things you will find it just as challenging as the “world without men” side. Search for my article “Our Relationship With Knowledge” on this site, it’s been down voted like crazy, no engagement at all. That’s pretty normal.
The science community in particular (those who have the most cultural authority on such issues) will view your writing on limiting the knowledge explosion much the same way the Catholic Church viewed atheists in the 12th century. You will be dismissed, ridiculed, scorned, deleted, banned etc. But probably not burned at the stake, so that’s good. :-)
If I was pressed to choose, I’d probably agree the “world without men” idea makes people more hysterical. But a notion that we can’t have never ending unlimited goodies from the knowledge explosion does not exactly delight people, to say the least.
Both of these ideas are wildly ambitious. Neither has much of a chance until MAYBE after some large historical event which undermines the assumption of the group consensus that we can somehow magically have our cake and eat it too, radical change for the better, without radical change.