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meadowlander

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19. I don't think we should go into the next election

Sun Dec 21, 2025, 05:56 PM

Dec 2025

being the party of "eat less, have more vegetables and turn your air conditioning down".

Republicans have grasped that young people are thirsting for vision and hope - even if it's a silly version of it like med beds and Martian colonies.

We need to acknowledge that we are living in extraordinary times, that the next 2-3 decades will bring about remarkable changes that have the potential to significantly better peoples' lives. The challenge is to harness that change so that everyone reaps the benefits from it and so that appropriate guardrails are put in place to protect people.

Let's be the party that's advocating for that and not the party of "don't build data centres - let China get there first" and "just suck it up and live with cancer - the cure is just a pipe dream and decades away anyway".

Where is our generation's JFK to set a productive goal for our society to aim towards? Something that we all agree would be beneficial for the advancement of humanity?

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Is it worth living forever if *everyone* does? [View all] meadowlander Dec 2025 OP

I'm still mulling over my answers to the questions but thanks for the food for thought. live love laugh Dec 2025 #1

This message was self-deleted by its author anciano Dec 2025 #3

Yes, but what about crimes? Polybius Dec 2025 #2

Yes, that's a great question too. With a long enough amount of time, is any crime forgivable? meadowlander Dec 2025 #5

Not something most of us will have to worry about bucolic_frolic Dec 2025 #4

Yes. Morbius Dec 2025 #35

AI has played a major role in advances in Alzheimers treatment meadowlander Dec 2025 #36

It seems to me that this is a question of how you live your life. CTyankee Dec 2025 #6

That's a very moving painting. Thanks for sharing it. meadowlander Dec 2025 #14

Although new technological innovations may extend the human lifespan anciano Dec 2025 #7

I Turned 80 in 2025. That has to be one of "those years." MineralMan Dec 2025 #8

I am personally embracing Eastern medicine as well as my family and most friends Iwasthere Dec 2025 #18

I eat all kinds of processed, sugary junk Skittles Dec 2025 #41

Bingo! hamsterjill Dec 2025 #44

"Death is the price we pay for progress." -- Doctor Who artemisia1 Dec 2025 #9

Even with death, it's amazing how hard it is to make a bad idea go away. meadowlander Dec 2025 #11

This message was self-deleted by its author PeaceWave Dec 2025 #10

I don't think living forever would be good EdmondDantes_ Dec 2025 #12

It depends. H2O Man Dec 2025 #13

I see no reason to believe that AI will significantly extend human life in the next decade, even for the ultra-rich muriel_volestrangler Dec 2025 #15

It's already being used to improve diagnostics meadowlander Dec 2025 #17

FWIW, I believe that the natural limitations of existence, such as death and decay, anciano Dec 2025 #21

There's absolutely no evidence that AI will "solve aging and death" ever, let alone in the near future. highplainsdem Dec 2025 #16

I don't think we should go into the next election meadowlander Dec 2025 #19

The AI industry is controlled by robber barons who have no interest in democracy. We will not find highplainsdem Dec 2025 #20

AI is a tool, like the internet and the printing press. meadowlander Dec 2025 #26

The pro-AI arguments that you're making - that it can't be stopped, that it's a race with China, that highplainsdem Dec 2025 #28

So what's your plan for winning an election in that context? meadowlander Dec 2025 #29

You didn't address this to me, but with all due respect anciano Dec 2025 #30

Except that how we manage AI is how you improve peoples' daily lives meadowlander Dec 2025 #32

Can't be sure at this point what the main issue will be. But boosting the AI industry and pretending highplainsdem Dec 2025 #31

I didn't say that it would offer an utopia. meadowlander Dec 2025 #34

wow. highplainsdem Dec 2025 #37

This is just going in circles at this point but I'll give it one final go as simple as I can state it: meadowlander Dec 2025 #38

You overestimate how much people like AI. Offering to get genAI the hell out of our devices and the highplainsdem Dec 2025 #39

You would probably get the same survey numbers asking about TikTok or YouTube meadowlander Dec 2025 #42

What you say here highplainsdem Dec 2025 #43

The first to claim public option as part of platform will win uponit7771 Dec 2025 #22

Or UBI. meadowlander Dec 2025 #27

What will the new retirement age be? Social security kicks in at what, 100? 110? flvegan Dec 2025 #23

I really don't think F47 is going to make it to your "event horizon" 0rganism Dec 2025 #24

Who Wants to Live Forever Intractable Dec 2025 #25

Of course it's worthwhile... WarGamer Dec 2025 #33

Not unless it makes it hurt less BlueSpot Dec 2025 #40

I have Rebl2 Dec 2025 #45