Future of Humanity: Risks and Dangers of Technological Advancements

The 20th century accelerated history, but the rapid development of technologies poses a danger of dehumanization through manipulation by corporations and politicians.

### The Dangers of Using AI and Bioengineering to Alter Humanity
* 🚀 The 20th century saw the rapid emergence of various movements and ideas, including **feminism, communism, nuclear weapons, and computers**, with history accelerating at an **unprecedented pace**.
* 💥 There is a significant risk that humanity could face **extinction in the coming centuries** due to factors such as **nuclear war, ecological collapse, or the uncontrolled development of AI**.
* If humans survive and gain immense power, it is likely that they will use technologies to alter themselves fundamentally, potentially resulting in descendants who are **vastly different from present-day Homo sapiens**.
* 🏗 The danger lies in the possibility of corporations, armies, and politicians using AI and bioengineering to enhance certain qualities like **intelligence and discipline** while neglecting crucial human traits such as **compassion, artistic sensitivity, and spirituality**.
* 🤖 "What really worries me is using the corporations, armies, politicians will use the new technologies to **change us in a way which will destroy our humanity or the best parts of our humanity**."
* 🛠 One concerning scenario is the creation of a dystopian society where humans are devoid of **compassion and spiritual depth**, resembling highly intelligent but **heartless "super soldiers."**
* 🌍 Another potential dystopia is a "Brave New World" scenario where human flaws and diversity are eliminated, resulting in a population of **pleasure-seeking individuals** who lack **critical thinking and creativity**.

it's fascinating that feminism and communism and all these things happen in the 20th century. So many interesting things happen in the 20th century, so many movements, so many ideas, nuclear weapons, all of it, computers. It's just like it seems like a lot of stuff, like really quickly percolated, and it's accelerating. It's still accelerating. I mean, history is just accelerating, you know, for centuries and, uh, the 20th century, you know, we squeezed into it the things that previously took thousands of years. And now, I mean, we are squeezing it into decades, and you very well could be one of the last historians, human historians, to have ever lived. Could be. I think, you know, our species, Homo sapiens, I don't think we'll be around in a century or two. We could destroy ourselves in a nuclear war, through ecological collapse, by giving too much power to AI that goes out out of our control. But if we survive, we'll probably have so much power that we will change ourselves.

using various technologies, so that our descendants will no longer be Homo sapiens like us. They will be more different from us than we are different from Neanderthals. Um, so maybe they'll have historians, but it will no longer be human historians or sapiens historians like me. I think it's an extremely dangerous development, and the chances that this will go wrong, that this will, you know, people will use the new technologies trying to upgrade humans but actually downgrading them. This is a very, very big danger. If you let corporations and armies and ruthless politicians change humans using tools like AI and bioengineering, it's very likely that they will try to enhance a few human qualities that they need like intelligence and discipline, while neglecting what are potentially more important human qualities like compassion, like artistic sensitivity, like spirituality. If you give Putin, for instance, bioengineering and AI and brain-computer interfaces, he is likely to want to create a race of super soldiers who are much more intelligent and much stronger and also much

disciplined and never rebel and march on Moscow against him, but he has no interest in making them more compassionate or more spiritual. So the end result could be a new type of humans, a downgraded humans who are highly intelligent and disciplined but have no compassion and no spiritual depth. And this is one for me, this is, you know, the dystopia, the apocalypse that when people talk about the new technologies and they have this scenario of, you know, the Terminator robot trying industry shooting people. This is not what worries me. I think we can avoid that. What really worries me is using the corporations, armies, politicians will use the new technologies to change us in a way which will destroy our humanity or the best parts of our humanity. And one of those ways could be removing the compassion. Another way that really worries me, for me, is probably more likely is a Brave New World kind of thing that sort of removes the flaws of humans, maybe it removes the diversity in humans and makes us all kind of

dopamine-chasing creatures that just kind of maximize enjoyment in the short term, which kind of seems like a good thing, maybe in the short term, but it creates a society that doesn't think, that doesn't create, that just is sitting there enjoying itself at a more and more rapid pace, which uh seems like another kind of society that could be easily controlled by a centralized Center of power, but the set of dystopias that we could arrive at through this um through a long corporations to modify humans is uh uh is vast, and we should be worried about that, so it's it seems like humans are pretty good as we are, all the flaws, all of it together, we are better than anything that we can intentionally design at present, yeah like any intentionally designed humans at the present moment is going to be much much worse than us because basically we don't understand ourselves, I mean as long as we don't understand our brain, our body, our mind, it's a very very bad idea to start.

manipulating a system that you don't understand deeply, and we don't understand ourselves.

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The Acceleration of History: A Bleak Future for Humanity?

The 20th century saw a rapid acceleration of historical events, compressing thousands of years of development into decades.

The future of humanity is seen as precarious, with the potential for self-destruction through nuclear war, ecological collapse, or uncontrolled AI power.

There is a warning about the dangers of allowing corporations, armies, and politicians to use technology to enhance human qualities, potentially prioritizing intelligence and strength over compassion, artistic sensitivity, and spirituality.

The Concerns About Using Technology to Modify Humans

There is a concern that the use of new technologies could result in the creation of highly intelligent but uncompassionate and spiritually shallow humans.

The worry is that these technologies could eliminate the best parts of humanity, such as compassion and diversity, potentially leading to a dystopian society.

The speaker believes that humans, with all their flaws, are better than any intentionally designed beings that technology could create at the present time.

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