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GinchAnon t1_jds97aq wrote

Reply to comment by Smart-Tomato-4984 in Are We Really This Lucky? The Improbability of Experiencing the Singularity by often_says_nice

That's the messed up and ironic twist. While to us it sucks.... by MOST metrics, at a societal level it's the best time to be alive yet.

For any factor where it was truly better in the past, that time frame where that factor was better had massive drawbacks.

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Smart-Tomato-4984 t1_jdtflwv wrote

I agree. I wouldn't want to go back in time. Hopefully in the future life will continue to improve for a very long time!

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