The world is fucked up. We have bigger problems ahead of us than we’ve ever had to solve before, but I feel like humanity really shines when we have problems to solve, so I’m actually quite optimistic about it. Is anybody else waving this banner?
Everyone seems to be stuck in an outmoded frame where status is a zero-sum game and human coordination is limited to 20th century models. But that’s not the case anymore. We have more human coordination power than has ever existed, and we all agree on not wanting to go extinct.
People want to do a humanities versus STEM drag-out match instead of progressing on multiple fronts at once. I know we’re just primates, but we don’t need to get in our own way this hard.
— 🎭 (@deepfates) November 10, 2021
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We’re not perfect, but we made a vaccine by understanding the very code of life itself, and seven billion doses have been administered already. In the last pandemic there were less than 2 billion humans worldwide. 😎
We’re in the middle of a global pandemic where we couldn’t coordinate on wearing masks, doing large scale rapid testing, taking vaccines or producing enough for the entire world.
— -abk- (@_vonarchimboldi) November 10, 2021
1% chances work out nine times out of 10. That’s what I always say.
My attitude I call dark optimism. it's like, we have a maybe a 1% chance of overall survival. So let's aim for that chance. which is opposed to pessimism, which says we have a 1% chance, let's give up
— 🎭 (@deepfates) November 10, 2021