This content was created by GHION.AI . This content was uploaded by GHION.AI . This is a YouTube video titled "Justin Rosenstein: Collective Action of Humanity" created on May 13, 2013. It features a discussion led by Justin Rosenstein and other unnamed speakers about the evolution of complexity on Earth, the potential paths humanity faces regarding global challenges, and the importance of collective action for a sustainable future.
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At this point, the universe is 14 billion years old. So for the vast majority of that time, it was basically just some rocks and some stars hanging out in empty space.
And over a very, very recent time.
Slice of that, we've had this big change where there's all this complexity that's arisen on planet Earth. And within an even smaller time slice of that, we have the evolution of.
Consciousness as we know it. And within 200 years ago, we were.
Wiping our asses with bark technology, again.
Putting this in context of 14 billion years.
And so now we are at this.
Point where we are on this fascinating.
Cusp where all of a sudden we're empowered with all this technology in a totally, totally unprecedented way.
And strangely, it seems that we're on.
This sort of cusp where there's two paths that both, to me, seem equally likely. You, on the one hand, have the path of that we won't go into details, but between global warming and biological.
Warfare and just a bunch of different.
Problems of global catastrophic risks, we're at this point where the global warming science is, whether it's 30 years or 300 years, we are on an exponentially increasing trajectory where we are going to consume all the resources and very likely leave the Earth in a much less pleasant state than the one we're enjoying today. That's basically just rampant shortsightedness and a rampant inability to come together and solve global problems. Because everyone is focused on their individual desires. There's an alternative world which is if.
We are able to solve those problems.
If we are able to come together.
To coordinate our collective action, to see.
Ourselves not as a bunch of individuals.
Vying for what is in our own interest, but to instead think about the we as a whole, to identify with humanity's interests as a whole, which I also think will lead to more individual human happiness.
If we're able to come together and.
See us as basically part of one big project, not a series of little.
Teams competing with each other, but a.
Single company working toward a single ends. Instead, we could break through, instead of.
The complexity of Earth looking like this.
Exponential trajectory, and then kaput.
It could instead keep going. We could manage to make the world sustainable, to make our consumption sustainable, to find new ways to do things like solve the sort of ridiculous problem we.
Have, that we have enough food to.
Feed everyone, but it's not evenly distributed.
And to allow everyone to have the.
Resources they need to contribute to the world in the way that they should be capable of.
And instead to continue on this exponential.
Trajectory in a world of abundance in a world.
We are all exploring our creative possibilities.
And our creative potential.
So we really are in this place.
Where we can choose either of these worlds. And it really is a question of.
Do we have the will to come.
Together and see ourselves and align our interests together as a single species, and.
