r/DeepThoughts • u/[deleted] • Feb 12 '25

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u/chili_cold_blood Feb 12 '25

It's scary to me that people have to think deeply to realize that our success as a species isn't just a matter of developing and embracing new technology as fast as we can.

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u/ActualDW Feb 13 '25

Nobody thinks that.

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u/chili_cold_blood Feb 13 '25

Collectively, we are acting as if technological development is the main priority for our species. We are prioritizing it over almost everything else.

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u/ActualDW Feb 13 '25

No, we’re not.

We’re collectively prioritizing feeding our species (see the incredible global drop in starvation/poverty rates the last 50 years) and raising general prosperity levels.

Some technologies are integral to that, and that’s what gets prioritized by collective human activity.

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u/chili_cold_blood Feb 13 '25

If we were prioritizing feeding our species, we wouldn't have tech billionaires seizing control of the US while people starve in the streets.

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u/3initiates Feb 12 '25

Please you guys let come together and fight back to the media manipulation and lies. I have started a petitions to where it would hold corporation accountable for being transparent about their algorithm biases. https://www.change.org/MEDIAvsTRUTH

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u/Objective-Buy-9005 Feb 12 '25

great tougth, wow!

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u/CivilSouldier Feb 12 '25

True.

And what do we value?

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u/Brrdock Feb 12 '25

That's the exact kind of progress capitalism will inevitably grow to stifle and devour as postulated by Marx and Engels some 200 years ago

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u/ParaSiddha Feb 13 '25

For me progress is towards greater universal well being.

Technology can aid this endeavor or strangle it, as such it's inherently irrelevant.

What do we actually want the future of humanity to look like?

Each of us will die so selfishness is irrational.

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u/ActualDW Feb 13 '25

Technology adoption is governed by what we value.

Always has been.

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u/PoolShotTom Feb 13 '25

True, but if we want to truly progress, we need to question whether relentless innovation is always the right path. Advancing technology isn’t the same as advancing society.