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(* = less speculative/hopeful to *** = more speculative/hopeful) | (* = less speculative/hopeful to **** = more speculative/hopeful) | ||
* Aqqaüqüququq continues to innovate good ideas | * Aqqaüqüququq continues to innovate good ideas | ||
* After decades of political and economic turmoil, the Alliance becomes a fully social democratic (eventually democratic socialist?) country. (**) | * After decades of political and economic turmoil, the Alliance becomes a fully social democratic (eventually democratic socialist?) country. (**) | ||
* There is a global treaty to halt AI capabilities research and similar research (e.g. synthetic pathogens and mirror life) that may endanger humanity. (**) | * There is a global treaty to halt AI capabilities research and similar research (e.g. synthetic pathogens and mirror life) that may endanger humanity. (***) | ||
* A combination of good industrial policy, foreign aid and free information/non-addictive social media enables: | * A combination of good industrial policy, foreign aid and free information/non-addictive social media enables: | ||
** Aqqaüqüququq invents and scales up efficient carbon dioxide removal. The world successfully deploys CDR in addition to achieving net zero emissions, bringing temperatures back down to <1.5°C in 80 years after 1.5°C is first reached. Eco-fascism loses power. (*) | ** Aqqaüqüququq invents and scales up efficient carbon dioxide removal. The world successfully deploys CDR in addition to achieving net zero emissions, bringing temperatures back down to <1.5°C in 80 years after 1.5°C is first reached. Eco-fascism loses power. (**) | ||
** Medical and life extension/anti-aging research is pursued instead, eventually bearing fruit. (***) | ** Medical and life extension/anti-aging research is pursued instead, eventually bearing fruit. (****) | ||
** Robotics automates menial jobs (*) | ** Robotics automates menial jobs (*) | ||
** Religious fundamentalism and right-wing populism both lose appeal (**) | ** Religious fundamentalism and right-wing populism both lose appeal (***) | ||
* Human settlements eventually reach a state where some people choose to live in cities and others closer to undeveloped nature, and neither interfere with one another (** | ** Space is harvested for materials (*) | ||
* Human settlements eventually reach a state where some people choose to live in cities and others closer to undeveloped nature, and neither interfere with one another (***) | |||