thomas

The disconnect between the most advanced countries and the rest of the world falling behind is getting parabolic.

I’m not talking about just wealth disparity — poverty has decreased virtually everywhere over the last few decades.

I’m talking about an acceleration of leading economies (OECD broadly, though mostly the US) toward an AI-driven technological singularity (with both pros and cons) coupled with energy abundance; while the bottom quartile remains mired in wars, despotism, religiosity, tribalism, climate fragility, and socioeconomic stagnation.

Human progress is like a rubber band that it’s being stretched to record levels between the two ends of the spectrum.

See this article for what sub-Saharan Africa has to contend with these days, and consider how far removed their human experience is from yours.

Any alien visiting our planet ten years from now will struggle to accept that we are one species

The disconnect between the most advanced countries and the rest of the world falling behind is getting parabolic.

I’m not talking about just wealth disparity — poverty has decreased virtually everywhere over the last few decades.

I’m talking about an acceleration of leading economies (OECD broadly, though mostly the US) toward an AI-driven technological singularity (with both pros and cons) coupled with energy abundance; while the bottom quartile remains mired in wars, despotism, religiosity, tribalism, climate fragility, and socioeconomic stagnation.

Human progress is like a rubber band that it’s being stretched to record levels between the two ends of the spectrum.

See this article for what sub-Saharan Africa has to contend with these days, and consider how far removed their human experience is from yours.

Any alien visiting our planet ten years from now will struggle to accept that we are one species

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/04/africa/burkina-faso-massacre-600-dead-french-intel-intl

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