Doom-Pilled: The Future of Humanity?

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The Agricultural Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction: The Malthusian trap
2:57 The Anthropocene
4:47 The Singularity
6:59 The conquest of Nature
9:02 Technopoly
10:56 Conclusion: Brave New World?

References:
- Ted Kaczynski: Industrial Society and Its Future
- Garrett Hardin: The Tragedy of the Commons
- Will Steffen et al: The Anthropocene: conceptual and historical perspectives
- Ray Kurzweil: The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
- Neil Postman: Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
- Aldous Huxley: Foreword to Brave New World (1946)

Image: Home in the Woods by Thomas Cole

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