There is a group of people that always predicts we’re going to experience an apocalypse and that we, everyone we love as well as the rest of humanity is going to die. When I was young, we were all going to die because of the third world war. Then it was acid rain that was going to kill all the trees and deprive us of oxygen. After that it was the Y2K problem where society was going to collapse because computers could not deal with the change of century. That was followed by Peak Oil where society would collapse as the world would not be able generate enough oil to fuel modern life. Then it became climate change and the world collapsing if we would allow the average temperature to rise more than 3 or 4 degrees. The most recent is, of course, AI that is going to kill us all once it becomes self-aware. Do you see the pattern? Do you contribute to the fear mongering? Are there perhaps ways in which you could use your time, focus and energy in ways that are more positive for society?
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