Seth Lloyd - Science and the Future of Humanity

We are privileged to be living when science is making astounding progress. Humanity has learned so much, so quickly. What will science achieve in another hundred years? A thousand years? A million years? Unimaginable? But what are the risks? Are they existential? For the future of humanity, what will science bring?



Seth Lloyd is a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He refers to himself as a "quantum mechanic".


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[choonbox]

My left ear now knows a lot more about the future of humanity than my right one.

[ophidiaparaclete]

Students of science disciplined in the scientific approach to learning through experience where everything is on the table until proven fact or fiction would never be anything but humble students in honor and respect one to another.

[Steelmage]

The scientific method and it's findings (colloquially known as "science") will continue to improve humanity, as it has done for hundreds of years.

[LawrenceKassab]

Isn't existence abstract in itself, life is a form of art and all art is abstract.

[Boogieplex]

I love this guy’s laugh.I also like his insights. But that laugh....😆

[ZafOsophy]

In one of my books, which I wrote about 10 years ago, I unlocked one of the biggest mysteries of over 2000 years. Signed, super genius)))

[pikiwiki]

"we'll make a new friend in artificial intelligence" That's interesting

[xspotbox]

Engineered nature is called a rock. Stone seems to be just right kind of form, since universe is mostly that. And other common form is a gas, those clouds seems to last eternally and they can make rocks. There's more stuff, like light and gravity, but nobody knows what to make of those quite yet. Those are the most stable and robust constructs we know of, technological marbles of cosmic physics, existing in perfect balance within the universe. Don't repair if it's not broken.

[gmotionedc]

I wish I could see what 1000 or 10000 years from now would be like.

[saammahakala]

Destruction ➡ Growth ➡ More Destruction ➡ More Growth ➡ Annihilation ➡ Minimal Growth ➡ Destruction etc.
Wash, Rinse, Repeat etc.

[LawrenceKassab]

I think Hollywood and former science fiction writers have prepared humanity to welcome AI

[laurenth]

Well, the future of humanity will be as the past, guess why ? Because we don't change.

[jamessmith]

Ecclesiastes 1:9 What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.

[alexanderivashchenko]

Did Seth start visit the gym? He looks better now.

[stMemberEver]

This is hopeless. This Hans Rosling thing just goes on and on. Technology won't save us, we are losing our habitat as we speak.

[poksnee]

Perhaps future science will feature stereophonic videos.

[cvsree]

Any amount of science will not save us from eventual truth - DEATH
The only thing that will help us save ourself from death is to understand God. God also will not save us from death but, will help us transcend it.