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ulookingatme t1_jeda8tk wrote

Thank Gawd you got off your ass and finally did something.

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courtimus-prime OP t1_jedamxq wrote

I wrote several articles about this subject including:

- Vertical farming, the fourth agricultural revolution, and the future of food

- Automation of labour, particularly in the context of tech like ChatGPT likely to inherit many white-collar jobs within our lifetimes. We must foster this.

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strangeattractors t1_jedcptj wrote

Everyone has to be on board with this in order to succeed. Try convincing the millions of people who watch Fox this is a good idea. Noble cause but won’t even gain traction until people are freaking out because they don’t have food, at which point would be too late I’m afraid.

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swifchif t1_jeddwu1 wrote

What do you have to say to people who will lose jobs to automation? Also, great ideas... but these aren't new ideas. Why aren't people already doing these things? How do you plan to make this all happen?

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Snushine t1_jedea8m wrote

It's a dirty job, but someone has to do it. Sounds a bit like feline gathering...

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t-dubs0420 t1_jedfo9y wrote

Here's a question for futurology -how many movements with actual impact wiill start on Reddit?

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courtimus-prime OP t1_jedjgl2 wrote

Replying to scooby1st (#2,517,896)

Not as much as you think. There is an impending global shortage of fertilizer, a necessary ingredient to the globe's food industry. This was mostly caused by the War in Ukraine that destroyed several refineries that was pivotal to the international market.

Realistically, we will run out of fertilizer stock in about 3-5 years. After that, who's to say?

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courtimus-prime OP t1_jedk8or wrote

Replying to swifchif (#2,516,784)

Thank you! Here are my thoughts.

>What do you have to say to people who will lose jobs to automation?

In a post scarcity society, the necessities of life (food, water, energy, housing) is produced in great abundance that they are essentially free. As a result, you only work if you want to, not because you have to. This frees everyone up to pursue what they are interested or talented in. This opens people up to starting small businesses and fueling a local economy.

>Why aren't people already doing these things?

The ideas exist, but rarely have they been consolidated and organized into a policy proposal. Instead, they largely remain utopian daydreams that get stigmatized for unpracticality. However, this society is entirely feasible. We just need to make it happen.

>How do you plan to make this all happen?

I am going to write and publish an academic research paper about this subject and make a website and identity around it. I've been dabbling in spreading the word on TikTok and bringing attention to the solutions to the problems we care the most about.

I'm a journalist at my school's international affairs paper, so I try to use that as a platform. My last article was about the future of food.

I'm unversed in how social movements are created and popularized. However, this is my life's calling and will do everything to make it a reality.

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good_for_uz t1_jedrlp1 wrote

Replying to courtimus-prime (#2,515,794)

There are several accounts like yours that sub to random subreddits and then one day just post a script written by AI and ask people to join them or sign up to their telegram or YouTube etc.

You might be different but I think people are downvoting because we see this all the time and it's just people trying to make money out of us.

I don't know either way what your intentions are but that's probably why the downvotes

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t-dubs0420 t1_jeeaq6v wrote

Replying to courtimus-prime (#2,515,794)

For some real insight on root causes check out Locust Effect by Gary Haugen, someone who is now a couple decades ahead of where you are, who has made a real, tremendous impact in the world. What you may see is the cause is actually deeper than you think - meaning the solutions must go deeper.

Ultimately, we can't legislate basic human goodness, and there will always be those who take opportunity to exploit the vulnerable, so solutions must remove the core causes of vulnerability. Politics, unfortunately, just tries to declare things into being and rarely understands the systemic interactions at work, and often is actually driven (on all sides) by those who leverage their own positions as a form exploitation for their own agendas. It's easy to get everyone to agree that we should make the world a better place. It has proven impossible thus far to get everyone to agree ideologically to 1. What is actually better, and 2 by natural transitive property, How to get there.

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Significant-Chip-703 t1_jeecuhj wrote

Good on you. Don't let the doubters get to you, it's easier for many people to bash ideas down than to support genuine change.

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YakComplete3569 t1_jeg3wtd wrote

I think I would vote for you but you are doing exactly what you should be doing. Tip of the iceberg is right. There are alot of details to making this happen. Earth maybe the only place these bodies can live for any lengthy amount of time. Afterall we are all the little critters inside us that might not be sustainable in a sterile space environment or another planet that doesn't have our fungi and bacterium. C diff doesn't smell pleasant. Everything else is easy... No it's not, so many people will put roadblocks in your way and discourage you and basically you are probable in for a world of gas lighting, smear campaigns, and everything else the dark triad will throw at you. And they never stop. Once you really understand those toxic behaviors, you will see it everywhere. And knowing is half the battle, go Joe!

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Futurology-ModTeam t1_jegfugv wrote

Hi, courtimus-prime. Thanks for contributing. However, your submission was removed from /r/Futurology.

> > For the past three years, I've been creating Posterity, a socio-economic proposal designed to save the world from a climate crisis and create a better life quality for everyone, forever. > > I am confident this is the next step for human development and an opportunity to redefine life's meaning. Today, life is a work-centric and stressful ordeal, despite living in the most advanced and prosperous period of human history. It's time for a change. > > In this proposal, we can simultaneously solve climate change while ending inequality, the root cause of all of society's challenges like homelessness, crime and poverty, to name a few. > > I call it Posterity because it is the essence of preserving and securing humanity's future, no matter what the future throws at us. Right now, we're at risk of a global food crisis in the next 3-5 years, according to the founder of AgriPlay, a vertical farming company (I interviewed him for an article about it). That could be the first domino to fall in the collapse of civilization, because without food, people rise up or die. > > Extinction-level threats like global famine put our species at risk of not surviving the next 1000 years, according to some experts. We need a way of preserving humanity's future long after we're gone. This project will do that. > > What's the project? > > It's a multifaceted solution to making human civilization sustainable. In doing so, we 1) eliminate environmental impact, and 2) we make fail-safe survival solutions in the event Earth becomes uninhabitable. By making countries and societies self-sufficient, we solve climate change. It's that simple. > > What are some examples? > > Surprisingly, one of the easiest problems we can solve is world hunger. With modern innovations in vertical farming, we can vast amounts of food sustainably and resistent to climate change. This will increase overall health, reduce malnutrition, and reduce costs of the food industry. Agriculture will thereby shift to self-sufficient methods, freeing existing farmland to regenerate and be turned into forestry. > > Rural farmers will stay employed by instead growing trees to be cut down and be used as timber for affordable housing. If we communally compost organic waste, we can end food waste by delivering the final product to farmers to increase biodiversity in the microbiology and creates food sources for species. > > Another significant aspect is improving quality of life considerably with the automation of labour. Artificial intelligence is capable of performing a vast range of jobs, giving us the opportunity to automate and improve the efficiency of our businesses. We can eliminate bullshit jobs and give our lives back to ourselves to spend as we please. This frees incalculable potential for humanity's next pioneers, philosophers, and revolutionaries. > > Final Notes > > This is the tip of the iceberg, and has become my purpose in life. I am committed to making a better future for everyone, and I am convinced my proposal is revolutionary. I truly think we can change the world, and it does not have to turn everything upside down. I am an international undergrad student at Queen's University studying environmental science and public policy and this is my calling. > > I have started a subreddit about it called PosterityAndFuturology where I hope this revolution to begin. I look forward to hearing what you guys have to say. This is my attempt at igniting something that will change the future forever. > > "Rage, rage against the dying of the light."

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