Topanga and the pink ranger <| sep |> people will continue to have differing opinions on WHAT we want to achieve . I think most humans want our species to live on after them , and for us to be prosperous , but deciding that still needs to be a democratic process . But once we ' ve decided what we want our species to achieve , there ' s little need for a democracy , in the face of true quantitative social science . While this is unfortunate , I just cant agree with you that at some point humans will just decide to dedicate themselves to the ' hive mindThat ' s not what I ' m saying . I said thisNow I ' ve given a very broad reaching argument , and a vision of reality that likely will never be reached . This was done to better illustrate the idea . But even in little bits , science can be used to best design our cities , and our economies , with the goal being the long term survival and prosperity of our species . It could be used to best design welfare systems to mitigate the rise of automation . It could be used to best design our economy to adhere to the reality of finite resources and tragedy of the commons , and the technology we have today . I appreciate your response though , and agree with your other sentiments . Although could you reiterate your last paragraph ? I don ' t follow .