Hacker News with Generative AI: Humanity

The Evil Vector (scottaaronson.blog)
Last week something world-shaking happened, something that could change the whole trajectory of humanity’s future. No, not that—we’ll get to that later.

AI, Technology, Future, Humanity

6 points by ingve 31 days ago | 1 comments

Are We Multiplanetary Yet? (arewemultiplanetaryyet.com)
No 😔

Space Exploration, Humanity, Future, Technology

18 points by da-x 88 days ago | 16 comments

Richard Powers on What We Do to the Earth and What It Does to Us (newyorker.com)
“Playground,” Powers’s new novel, aims to do for the oceans what “The Overstory” did for trees, shaking us out of our human exceptionalism.

Environment, Literature, Novels, Humanity

8 points by mitchbob 202 days ago | 3 comments

A new movement of luddites is rising up against AI (theguardian.com)

Artificial Intelligence, Social Commentary, Technology, Humanity

8 points by Emigre_ 251 days ago | 1 comments

E.B. White's Beautiful Letter to a Man Who Had Lost Faith in Humanity (themarginalian.org)

Humanity, Literature, Essays, Writing

26 points by Tomte 261 days ago | 0 comments

Do Games Like Factorio Or EVE Online Sap The Intellectual Potential Of Humanity? (reddit.com)

Video Games, Humanity, Intellectual Potential

16 points by optimalsolver 293 days ago | 16 comments

The Collapse Is Coming. Will Humanity Adapt? (nautil.us)