(1/33) I wanted to share my thoughts on the implications of Artificial wombs and Social child-rearing.
(2/33) The artificial womb will arguably be the most promising and revolutionary technology in the next 20 years. It may first emerge as a complementary solution to the existing human system like the brain-computer interface.
(3/33) While brain-computer interfaces are designed to help the disabled with person-computer communication, artificial wombs end premature babies' deaths. Both technologies will eventually lead to a new society, a new future, and new possibilities.
(4/33) Upon the tech tree, after the brain-computer interface, humanity's next stop will undoubtedly be the metaverse, where carbon-based life and silicon-based civilization truly integrate.
(5/33) It will be a world with no gap between virtuality and reality. Such a world requires artificial wombs as its biological basis and socialized child-rearing on a higher level.
(6/33) From the social point of view, our life in the future may not be too different from the world of The Matrix. Humans will live in a space that fuses reality and virtuality—reality will be virtual, and virtuality will be real.
(7/33) Every individual in the future will be able to strip off the chains of the family, class, and nation and therefore be completely liberated.
(8/33) Since the essence of a human being is nothing but their mind, when minds persist in the decentralized #blockchain world, it will be impossible to destroy minds, life, or even #decentralization in reality.
(9/33) Politically speaking, human society will see unprecedented integration in the short term, where the artificial womb and socialized child-rearing will transform families, the basic unit of #society.
(10/33) This combination will further alter the concepts constructed based on families such as class and nation. National borders will disappear, and the world will be more globalized than ever, giving birth to a world government or other supranational organizations.
(11/33) Here are some possible scenarios in the following two decades:
(12/33) 1, the low birth rate, as well as the slow population growth, is a practical challenge facing policymakers in all developed countries…
(13/33) …Which will escalate to an existential crisis that may result in the end of human existence in a matter of hundreds of years if the artificial womb cannot be a dream come true.
(14/33) 2nd, given the competition between nations, those who first resort to the artificial womb and socialized child-rearing will see a steep rise in their national strength, boosted by the swell of high-quality population.
(15/33) In two to three decades, they may rise to become superpowers. Therefore, the victory of warfare in the 21st century lies not in weapons but in artificial wombs.
(16/33) 3rd, the artificial womb and socialized child-rearing can be achieved without substantial biotechnological breakthroughs. They previously came to a standstill mainly due to the lack of willingness, courage, and permission to push them forward despite their achievements.
(17/33) 4th, the world's population is growing by less than half a million per day, a relatively low figure for large-scale production and technological advancement.
(18/33) It can be foreseen that as the artificial womb technology matures, those born with artificial wombs will outnumber the ones from natural births within a brief period, making up the majority of the world's population.
(19/33) 5th, the recent case of Liu Xuezhou and the victims of child abandonment and abduction have all spoken. Raising offspring is an undertaking with low efficiency and high cost for the less affluent families, and only a handful of them can fulfill this task effectively.
(20/33) Socialized child-rearing on a large scale is the only answer to human reproduction with efficiency, quantity, and quality guaranteed.
(21/33) Just as smartphones never superseded handwritten letters, artificial wombs and socialized child-rearing will not affect how the current population form families and raise offspring but will gradually move to the mainstream.
(22/33) 6th, artificial wombs and socialized child-rearing are essentially devised to replace family and marriage, which are now on the edge of falling apart, proven by an average divorce rate of over 50% globally.
(23/33) The future of humanity is calling for an innovative theory of the century that both meets the needs for human reproduction and provides solid technical and theoretical grounds.
(24/33) 7th, artificial wombs and socialized child-rearing will, at an unprecedented level, accelerate the technological development of humankind, which itself is the result of randomized combinations of the population at a high quality and grand scale.
(25/33) Though we cannot predict when humans will master the #technology to contain nuclear fusion or realize interplanetary travel, it’s clear that sustainable population growth in high quality and at scale is the basis of achieving these visions above.
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(26/33) 8th, artificial wombs will completely liberate women who have been given the mission of human reproduction throughout history. The emergence of artificial wombs will free women entirely from childbearing and the associated pain of birth-giving.
(27/33) More importantly, it will erase discrimination against women from childbearing and guarantee gender equality, thus truly liberating their identity.
(28/33) 9th, artificial wombs and socialized child-rearing will eradicate social inequality. Most inequality in human society, whether associated with a person's nationality, birthplace, class, or access to education resources, is decided the moment one is brought to the world.
A key to revolutionary success would be the establishment of base areas. Today, that would be especially the ones that know how to balance between the China and US blocks.
Before, Cryptoists only use small states merely for regulatory arbitrage rather than forging deep and organic ties, which is quite opportunist politically. That is why earlier revolutionaries would disapprove it as “roving bandits” ideology.
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Yesterday I happened to remind someone of my academic background in social science, history in particular. Then it occurred to me that there are some lessons from the modern Chinese history that might be relevant to the regulatory battle Crypto as an industry is facing.
From the last days of the Qing dynasty to the founding of PRC, each generation trumped the former with a more powerful ideology. Republicanism over empire, nationalism over warlords, eventually Max-Leninsm over the KMT. The underlying theme is the continuous sense of progress.
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When both China and US are confronting the tech giants’ monopolies, such as trapping their armies of employees in algorithms, China turns to the state as Engels would suggest while American and European techies are trying to revitalize Bakunin with decentralized networks.
The dispute between Engels and Bakunin was whether we should have a powerful state to constraint capital or use a network of self-governing organizations to replace state and capital, with the former being socialism while the latter being anarchism and later as liberal socialism.
(1/4) 🚀Implementing the $SUN redenomination and upgrade plan is a key step to realize $SUN self-governance and will surely go down in blockchain history as a milestone. medium.com/@tronfoundatio…
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✅ $SUN will witness a strong price momentum after its listing on a large number of leading digital asset exchanges.
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✅ $SUN's market cap is severely underestimated.
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1/12 I participated in the @ChristiesInc#NFT auction for Everydays: the First 5,000 Days by @Beeple. My final effective bid was $60 MIL (plus fee $69 MIL). However, was outbid by another buyer in the last 20 secs by $250k. Difference was less than 0.3% of the total price.
2/12 My purpose for this tweet is to be transparent to our community & public. I respect Christie’s & want to congratulate @Beeple for this historic sale! This makes him one of the top three most valuable living artists!
3/12 I attach the video below to verify my statements here.