Instead of spending billions of dollars on campaigns and stuff..
What we ought to do, is give all of that money to AI research...
OR
Feed the hungry (NO)
Research to cure current incurable diseases (NO)
Environmental research (I.E Alternative fuels) (YES)
Space Research (I'll take living on another planet over having Cortana) (YES, in the future)
Feeding the hungry is trivial, we can feed the whole damn world with even 1/10,000 of the dollars spent in our political process..
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Current incurable diseases.. Not really a priority, because the effective human productivity ends at about retirement age..
Most diseases don't kill you before that time.. So yes, diseases are bad on the individual scale, but as Humanity, we are strong enough as a reproducing entity to endure nearly ALL OF THEM...
Have you noticed, that humanity has grown despite so many ailments.. We produce more than enough healthy humans to replace those lost early due to health problems..
So, yea we should fight disease, but this is of low priority for mankind as a whole..
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Environmental research, alternative fuel.
This is certainly going to be part of the AI-Plan, it's already ongoing really.. Solar is the future..
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Space research.. VERY important, asteroid defense, Aliens, who knows what's out there..
but with our current level of technology, we honestly barely TOUCH space.. chemical rockets is not the way to go..
We need a far more potent Ion drive.. Ion sail system for us to even begin considering space..
THE ALTERNATIVE to chemical rockets, of course, is transfering the human consciousness into a cybernetic organism.. now, without the weakness of biological flesh, we could indeed just send a chemical rocket to get our AI out there to explore the universe.