All Possible Views About Humanity's Future Are Wild

"... we live in the most important century for humanity."

"According to me, there's a decent chance that we live at the very beginning of the tiny sliver of time during which the galaxy goes from nearly lifeless to largely populated. That out of a staggering number of persons who will ever exist, we're among the first. And that out of hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy, ours will produce the bein... See more

... But here I'm making the opposite point. It looks for all the world as though our "tiny dot" has a real shot at being the origin of a galaxy-scale civilization. "

"within this century, we could develop advanced enough AI to start a productivity explosion."

" Describing Earth as a tiny dot in a photo from space, Ann Druyan and Carl Sagan wrote: The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena...