Seeker

by Douglas E. Richards

Weiser was a wunderkind, a man who had burst onto the scene from nowhere, and in just a few short years had managed to out-musk the great Elon Musk.

others saw the rise of AVs as more alarming. Millions of Americans who made a living from driving would lose their jobs, including truck and bus drivers, delivery drivers, taxis, and Lyft and Uber drivers, among others. As crashes became a thing of the past, the ranks of the half million people in the auto body repair business would become decimated. Auto insurance companies would go out of business. The real estate market would shift dramatically, as longer commutes became ever more tolerable.

Some Negagtive effects of automated vehicles.

Cocktail Party Effect,

As he continued to explore his surroundings, he was struck by just how infinitesimally tiny a fraction of reality the average man was exposed to, or could access. There were universes within universes, realms within realms, well beyond the range of human experience.

Richard Feynman’s talk in 1959 entitled, “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom.”

The automated self-construction of a human being from a single cell, including a working brain hundreds of billions of neurons strong, was a staggering, mind-boggling feat of engineering. But since nature made this look relatively easy, it was largely taken for granted.

So Ella was attractive, brilliant, witty . . . and a Star Trek geek? Wow, he thought. She might just be the perfect woman.

For a country of less than ten million people, their scientific achievements had been extraordinary. On a per capita basis, their citizens had the most MDs and PhDs of any country in the world, and had been awarded the highest number of Nobel prizes. Herzog

Israel

The very unpredictability of existence is what makes it interesting.

Isaac Asimov, wrote a story about an eternal being, call it God, who creates an eternal afterlife for the best minds in the universe. As much as the owners of these minds might want to end the tedium of eternal existence, perhaps after a few billion long years have passed, God won’t let them. Eventually, they decide that the only way they can die in peace is to kill God first, which they set out to try to do. The twist is that this is the very reason God selected them, and is keeping them alive, in the first place. So they can find a way to, mercifully, end its existence—which is the only thing God is unable to do.”

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The level of pessimism and despair being experienced by a significant percentage of your species is unprecedented.”

Things arent as bad as they seem

You’re wired by evolution to find bad news more motivational than good.

“If your ancestors heard the rustle of a friendly breeze far away in the tall grass, and ran away, mistaking the breeze for a lion, this cost them very little. But if they heard the rustle of a lion in the tall grass, and mistook it for a friendly breeze, this would cost them their lives. Seeing potential bad news behind every harmless breeze is a survival instinct.