between the demographic fears, debunked since decades (sorry, after 9 billion, humanity will reduce), the gibbs like "it might be wrongly done or use, so just don't do it", the various fear about healt,, environment... and those existential fears tha get up to DoD or UNO, with debunked fear or SciFi...
I think we (in occident ) have a problem... a mental problem... It starts to destroy more than it saves, to waste resources instead os saving, to kill instead of cure. Maybe also like many I forgot that humanity have been more stupid earlier... Hope so. We have old societal mental diseases (malthusianism, apocalipticalism, neo-animism, hypocondry) but now they are global. it remind me an article about post-modernism. it determine the kind of religion Archaic culture is feeling that human is controlled by the nature, and suffer from it... Religion is based on obeying nature, or lords... Modern culture is feeling that humans can control the nature. parapsychology develop as a symptom of self-confidence. post-modern culture feel so powerful that it is afraid to hurt the nature...Culpabilist animism develops. Hope LENR can make us more positive. 2012/11/27 Terry Blanton <[email protected]> > On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Terry Blanton <[email protected]> wrote: > > CSER is being launched at Cambridge University to protect us from Skynet: > > And now we have reassurance from the Pentagon: > > http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/11/human-robot-kill > > "The Pentagon wants to make perfectly clear that every time one of its > flying robots releases its lethal payload, it’s the result of a > decision made by an accountable human being in a lawful chain of > command. Human rights groups and nervous citizens fear that > technological advances in autonomy will slowly lead to the day when > robots make that critical decision for themselves. But according to a > new policy directive issued by a top Pentagon official, there shall be > no SkyNet, thank you very much." > > <more> > > I feel reassured, do you? > >
