Hopefully less. Honestly I'll take tech that can change me into a person that's chill with facing an eternity of nothing. Take what I can get. Who knows tho, when we're smashing neutron stars together in a couple years, maybe we can break something the right way around.

Maybe, but even a billion billion years is nothing in the face of the eternity of non existence. Not trying to dunk on you or anything btw, very much in agreement with you, I'm tryin to dodge that fate for as long as possible lmao

There's no science that says there will be a "forever". Do you think that science will solve that, and in what way is that belief different from religion? Do you not perceive this as a coping mechanism to avoid the reality of death?

I would much rather someone with a horrid ideology like you as a wage slave than an artificial lifeform that doesn't have brainworms.

I would much rather someone with a horrid ideology like you as a wage slave than an artificial lifeform lmao.

It has saved a lot of people. The class divide has widened, because of capitalism, in spite of technological advances. And the global quality of life has risen, because of technology, in spite of capitalism. There is absolutely a tipping point and we are witnessing it in real time, capitalism is failing to maintain the perpetual growth that it requires and the greed of people is being wildly out paced by the growth of technology.

I think the fear is more primal than it seems at first. I don't think it's necessarily a fear of not having a job, or not being able to survive because of capitalism, I think most people are actually aware that things can and do exist without capitalism just fine. I think the bigger fear and problem is a lack of meaning. The forced psuedo-scarcity and pseudo-meritocracy give a lot of people meaning. It gives them a world they need to struggle to survive in, it gives them an explicit metric for success and it gives them a hierarchy to fit into.

I think that a lot of people who are afraid of technology and afraid of the future are really just afraid to lose that meaning and afraid to face the reality of how they've been living, moraly and otherwise.

And I do think a lack of meaning will be a long term problem for people in the future, even as intelligence and culture grows, so I don't really blame them.