>Abrahamic history doesn't startto match real history

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_biblical_figures_identified_in_extra-biblical_sources

>Various cultures (by no means 'all') having flood myths is hardly evidence of a singular worldwide flood as though

We know there was massive global flooding at the end of the Ice Age.

We also know various oral histories regarding flooding have all pointed to geographic and archaeological evidence that verified those stories were all related to end of Ice Age flooding.

Inuit oral history recorded villages (among a people that did not have permanent villages). Those villages have been found underwater.

Australian aboriginals passing down the names, locations of descriptions of islands that don't exist. But we found them underwater by following those stories, and they would have been above water at the end of the Ice Age.

Why would we doubt that the Sumerians, who were 6,000 years closer in time to the Ice Age, would not have remembered the post Ice Age flooding in their oral histories?

Even the Abrahamic histories are not as far off as a lot of people would wish.

Aside from religion, there is a lot of oral history there, and quite a bit of it has been verified.

To go even further. A lot of Abrahmic mythology is nothing more than Sumerian mythology that has been slightly altered.

For example, Abrahamic stories of the Great Flood come directly from the Sumerian, including their own version of the ark.

>When I say "sustainable," I don't just mean eco-friendly. For example, it's not sustainable to keep large arsenals of nuclear armed ICBMs, because even if the probability of them being used in any year is very small, the cumulative probability over long time spans approaches 1. Probably the only way to change this is a radical and global change in governance.

AGI and the singularity, if it happens, don't really change this.

Now adversarial countries have competing AGI's with ever more lethal weapon pointed at each other.

What if that’s just data being fed to our instruments.

The data would only need to be produced at the resolution our instruments could handle and only for the areas we are actively looking at while we are looking.

Or maybe the scientists are part of the simulation, philosophical zombies, and the only data simulated is what you as a lay person are physically looking at/listening to.

Implementation and incremental improvement of existing technologies have the potential to address most of the world’s problems.

Solar and wind power are already being implemented at a rapid pace.

Much of the world, and a sizable fraction of the US, have already mandated the switch to electric vehicles.

Bioreactors and vertical farms are already taking food to market.

None of this really changes life for the average person. The steak you bought is labeled Green, you charge your car instead of pumping gas, and life goes on.

3: The world continues on more or less as is, but with better cell phones every year.

Or keep it a secret while becoming very wealthy.

Would you publicly admit to having an AGI that had solved the market for currency derivatives.

And Apple is implementing the Thunderbolt standard, which means all the extras that USB-C has listed as optional will be fully supported.

People like to believe they are good.

With the solution above, the wealthy will be able to legitimately state that they provided food, clothing, and shelter to the unemployed masses.

It just won’t be what you are asking for. It will also be far better than the conditions experienced by the poor in Victorian England, where the wealthy thought they were doing good by helping the poor and the orphans.

Total collapse of society is unlikely.

If society eliminates most of the lower and mid classes while maintaining production it would create abundance for the upper classes.

It would suck to be a part of society that is no longer needed, but it will be the upper classes that write the history books.

Or people will be shoveled into barracks style dormitories, fed very basic meals in cafeterias, and any resistance will be summarily put down by much better armed police.

Health care for the elderly is insanely expensive. Add in the cost of Social Security.

I would expect both the insurance companies and the government to push for access.

I’ve had the same lighting cables for better than five years.

All this change will do is force me to buy new cables when I eventually upgrade my existing phone and iPad.

Why are you unable to accept that using the less labor intensive response does not mean I don't understand it.

The people without those issues don’t tend to be chronically homeless.

People without mental health issues or severe drug issues already tend to have access to programs that help them find employment and housing.

You are conflating people with short-term housing issues with the chronically homeless.

They tend to be two separate groups with very different needs.

Putting the severely mentally ill / chronically drug addicted in a house unsupervised creates more problems than it solves.

What they need is 24/7 supervised medical care.

1. This costs significantly more than simple housing.
2. It would likely be involuntary for a significant percentage of the chronically homeless.

Here’s a wild suggestion.

The chronically homeless have much larger issues than simply being homeless.

Until those underlying issues are treated, simply supplying housing does nothing but create new problems. Assuming they are even willing to stay in the provided housing without destroying it.

The chronically homeless overwhelmingly have severe mental health issues, chronic drug addiction, or both.

And I’m not going to waste 20 minutes typing on my phone when I can just link the information.

Even bigger issue with Africa and SE Asia is nutritional value.

Golden rice, which was genetically engineered for increased nutrition, is not perineal.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_rice

Reduced water, vastly increased labor and pesticides.

Rice is usually grown in areas where water is not an issue.

The bigger issue with rice is methane emissions.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/13/bill-gates-donates-20-billion-to-bill-and-melinda-gates-foundation.html

Yes, and they have been openly stating this for years.

And it’s not the first piece of automation distribution centers have adopted to reduce labor requirements.

Getting a little close to the uncanny valley there a few times.

More likely, when it happens it will be controlled by either a corporation or China.

Neither scenario will produce the results most are hoping for.