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Recently I read (skimmed) a book where an Artificial Intelligence Children of Mens humanity (e.g., sterilizes everyone) to "Save the Earth." While you can, of course, make the case against humanity, it isn't because of the harm we are doing to "the planet," one of the crazier claims "smart" people make with a straight face.
As documented on this blog (and by Hannah Ritchie), things are not going badly, on average, for humanity. (E.g., did you hear Deforestation in the Amazon has halved in the last few years? Almost certainly not - we can't contradict the liberal Gospel of Doom!)
Psychologist Adam Mastroianni has a new, long* post about why huge swaths of the population always think "The End Is Nigh!" I would add that believing that I just happen to live in "the most critical time ever" gives our lives a meaning that "serving god" has for many others.
*It kinda bums me out that, as far as I can tell, the internet rewards volume. The writers I hear about the most are the ones who write very long (and padded) posts. But: It is what it is. More words - more smartitude.
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