Richard Socher

So that is somewhat of a contrarian task, but maybe not so.

I mean, there are only a few people who believe in this also, and they're putting really like resources behind this.

yeah it's it's something that's kind of disheartening to see it's also i think a big part of hollywood you know like people like it's so much easier to tell dystopian stories uh that are entertaining than positive future stories like you gotta still you know inside a positive future embed

some drama, right?

No one wants to see people just being happy, living fulfilled lives, being slightly more wealthy and better off and comfortable than they were like, you know, a generation prior.

Like that doesn't make an interesting movie, right?

And so I think that's a big part of it.

I think there's also just change is hard, right?

People don't,

They like change as much.

And I think the anti-I sentiment is even higher in other places.

And I think a lot of civilizations will eventually have to decide sort of do they want to just stagnate and stay where they're at right now and try to fight change as much as possible or not.

And so I think people hated electricity, people hated tractors, people hated weaving machines.

There's a lot of folks that don't like change of any kind.

And they think that everything was better when they're younger.

It's usually true because when you're young, you're healthier.

At the same time, once a loved one gets cancer and there's no cure or there is a cure, you're probably happy that that cure exists.

You might not say, oh, that happened because we spend a lot of like taxpayer money on research and foundational like biology understanding and like,

making DNA sequencing cheaper and cheaper because initially that was only for the wealthiest of the people, but now anyone can afford to sequence the DNA.

So you have to kind of zoom out and see how much progress there is.