Shekhar Natarajan
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how overpopulation is a myth and most of the world is empty space and you could fit the entire global population in the state of Texas and there'd still be plenty of empty space.
The issue is distribution of resources, but if you're imagining godlike technologies at exponentially increasing capacities, the idea that we wouldn't be able to
deliver resources, I think, is contextual.
And technology is a resource-liberating mechanism.
And so, again, I can find a reason to stick with my narrative.
That's what makes us human.
We all have a perspective.
Kevin, what about you?
Well, so if you look at the spectrum of where we are to this kind of sanitized utopia, there's quite a bit of distance.
And we don't even know what that human experience will be in 50 years or 100 years.
What's the human machine interface?
What's the human to machine to human?
Do we directly transmit our emotions?
We don't know what that's going to mean.
And so there's kind of the great FOMO.
The Greenland shark, like they found in the ocean, it's like almost 400 years old, and it's like navigating around, you're like, this thing was around during the Gilded Age of the Dutch, yeah.
Yeah, I mean, look, again, the question of not dying and immortality is one thing, but like, the lifespan of the Earth, the lifespan of the universe, these are dealing in proportions so much beyond us, like, how about like giving us a couple hundred more years just to like,
feel it through, you know, and decide, and just read more books, live in more places, you know?
So would you let AI pick, like, someone that you want to live with, and if AI tells you that stop loving that person and start loving someone else, would you do that?
I just, I don't think...