[ExI] our world

[Adrian Tymes]

>From many perspectives, a world without humans would be worse.

On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 1:31 PM 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
>
> 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:
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>> 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 <
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>>> 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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