There are definitely possible futures worse than extinction. And some fairly likely ones that might not be worse than extinction but would still suck big time. Varying from comparable to a forced move to a damnsight worse than moving to anywhere that presently exists. I’m old enough to have already had some disappointments (alongside some positive surprises) about how the “future” has turned out. I could easily see how I could get a lot worse ones.
But what are we meant to do with what you’ve posted and how you’ve framed it?
Also, if somebody does have the “non-extinction ⇒ good” mindset, I suspect they’ll be prone to read your post as saying that change in itself is unacceptable, or at least that any change that every single person doesn’t agree to is unacceptable. Which is kind of a useless position since, yeah, there will always be change, and things not changing will also always make some people unhappy.
I’ve gotta say that, even though I definitely worry about non-extinction dystopias, and think that they are, in the aggregate, more probable than extinction scenarios… your use of the word “meaning” really triggered me. That truly is a word people use really incoherently.
I think I understand what you mean.
There are definitely possible futures worse than extinction. And some fairly likely ones that might not be worse than extinction but would still suck big time. Varying from comparable to a forced move to a damnsight worse than moving to anywhere that presently exists. I’m old enough to have already had some disappointments (alongside some positive surprises) about how the “future” has turned out. I could easily see how I could get a lot worse ones.
But what are we meant to do with what you’ve posted and how you’ve framed it?
Also, if somebody does have the “non-extinction ⇒ good” mindset, I suspect they’ll be prone to read your post as saying that change in itself is unacceptable, or at least that any change that every single person doesn’t agree to is unacceptable. Which is kind of a useless position since, yeah, there will always be change, and things not changing will also always make some people unhappy.
I’ve gotta say that, even though I definitely worry about non-extinction dystopias, and think that they are, in the aggregate, more probable than extinction scenarios… your use of the word “meaning” really triggered me. That truly is a word people use really incoherently.
Maybe some more concrete concerns?