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We cannot halt progress because some parts of the world lag behind. It is their job to catch up, not mine to drag my feet.
And catching up is easy. Democracy and free inquiry, free thought. Don't like it, stay undeveloped.
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im guessing you didnt put much thought into that answer?
if the 3rd world is as smart as the 1st there will be more competition to develop new technologies. since there are less smart people there are less technologies. as for their job to catch up, most are in debt (world bank
loans) and the subsidies that the 1st world provide to its own make the 3rd world even weaker.
as for catching up being easy, define easy. if by easy you mean not enough to provide the citizens basic needs like water or a meal per day, roads or electricity. easy meaning 1/3 of whatever 3rd world nation's gdp goes to paying the debt. i suppose thats easy, easy as pie.
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Fresh water will be the new "black gold".
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there are technologies to filter water, but people think its gross that shit and piss water is turned into drinking water. most water is rinsed to standard then drained into a river/aquifer. then river/aquifer water is sucked back up and treated more. there is technology to have ample water for everyone, but its not implemented because its easier and unnecessary.
as for transfering mind to computer: i wonder if the mind is transfered while still alive if we would do the same thing in the computer world as the real world. assuming that we werent given god powers just normal human powers. and even if were were allowed godly powers would we be able to access them in this computer world? we would have no idea how to and it would be a complete paradime shift to be able to. imagine having these powers right now, how would you use them? idk just thinking.
i would think this god world would get boring knowing everything and all. id probably create something so i could live without the knowledge of everything, maybe dissolve myself so i could live in billions of separate organisms and feel something other than boring godlikeness. ehh ehhh? anyone.... c'mon this is important stuff.
as for computers that think like minds: the only way to do that is with quantum computers because our brain is so advanced and information is randomly linked with other information as far as storage goes. i remember reading something about quantum computing a while ago, very interesting stuff.