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6 days agoMe, trying not to write a political comment on a non-political question.

I’d guess we’re either going to reach futuristic Star Trek communism or a dystopian world-wide techno-feudalism.
I’m mostly half-serious.


Me, trying not to write a political comment on a non-political question.

I’d guess we’re either going to reach futuristic Star Trek communism or a dystopian world-wide techno-feudalism.


This is a bit meta, but I believe morality is objective. Actions have objective moral worth; epistemological disagreements about how we know the moral value of an action are irrelevant to the objectivity of goodness/badness itself.
But doesn’t the generation ship / cryogenic technology / nuclear technology make intergalactic travel possible (albeit very slow)?