[ExI] our world

[William Flynn Wallace]

Is it possible to even think of a world, a physical world, that is better
than ours?  What would it look like?    bill w

I was thinking of just the physical world itself, with humans and their
doings out of the picture.   bill w
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On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 2:22 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> That depends on which sense of "better" you mean.
>
> I can certainly imagine a world in which infectious diseases were easier
> to eradicate.
>
> Or one where one of the primary duties of the United Nations was to offer
> world leaders education and resources on how to rule more effectively - and
> most new world leaders took advantage of it.  This includes every serious
> US President candidate who got past the primaries - any that had not by a
> couple months after the primaries was seen as non-serious, or at least
> incompetent, and thus lost enough support to matter - and similar for other
> democracies.  More importantly, it includes most newly appointed dictators,
> though it might take a few years to convince them (long enough for them to
> transition from caring about getting into office to caring about staying in
> office).
>
> I can also imagine space habitats where floods, earthquakes, and the like
> simply do not happen, and the environment is designed for maximum human
> habitability.  There may be nature preserves in other, attached habitats,
> for humans to visit when they wish, but a growing population simply
> constructs more space for people to live rather than settling whatever
> formerly-wild lands are convenient.
>
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 10:10 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to even think of a world, a physical world, that is better
>> than ours?  What would it look like?    bill w
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