What is the end goal of scientific knowledge? How should we be utilizing it?

What is the end goal of scientific knowledge? How should we be utilizing it?

If ethics is a legitimate topic, then there are unethical usages and ethical usages of scientific knowledge, with some grey area as well.

Look at the Borg. They optimize for scientific and technological knowledge and nothing else. But by most accounts they are unethical and in fact very evil, while simultaneously being tragic victims of a distributed technological super-mind.

Should we be aiming for a Borg-like society? We are moving towards it, slowly but surely. We each hold smart phones in our pockets which we are becoming more and more attached to. Now we have wearables as well. What is next? Implantables? We will become cyborgs

Our social behaviors are also being modified by technology. Look at Veeky Forums. This is recent - nobody in the history of humanity has ever been able to communicate so freely. And then look at the Borg - ultimate freedom of communication through a unified singular mind.

How do we avoid becoming the Borg? Should we avoid it?

To use any and all resources on the planet to increase our numbers to the maximum possible extent.

In a way, scientists have essentially destroyed any hope for long term survival of the human race, because the vast majority of humans are essentially materialistic short-sighted animals that can't be trusted to use advanced technology responsibly.

Hunter gatherer societies would have been sustainable.

To use it for your own gain.
>invent rock axe
>use it to kill people
>invent farming
.>use it to increase tribe size
>increase shield
>use it to live longer in war

The point of science is to abuse it.

>What is the end goal of scientific knowledge?
A complete, accurate, coherent, working model of everything that physically exists, in as simple a form as possible.

>How should we be utilizing it?
To be happy.

>Hunter gatherer societies would have been sustainable.
Everyone laugh at this retard.

It has none. Only what you project. Amongst scientists: some pursue it out of a pantheistic mentality, uncovering the secrets of the universe and marveling at its beauty. For others it's just an intellectual interest that they've put time into and enjoy. For many it's just a mundane job.

"end goal" requires you to arbitrarily dictate where humanity should be going and what we should be.

also
> But by most accounts they are unethical and in fact very evil, while simultaneously being tragic victims of a distributed technological super-mind.
Completely subjective, see you've already projected your own goal.

>retard doesn't realize the reason he could type that ridiculous bullshit was due to advancement in science

Stay a brainlet forever faggot

>Stay a brainlet forever faggot
Why the homophobia?

>>retard doesn't realize the reason he could type that ridiculous bullshit was due to advancement in science
Who are you quoting?

Why the faggotry?

Smart phones are increasing in popularity, implants may be our near future, but I think it's a logical leap to assume we are going to become the Borg.

/thread

Old meme is old

One day everyone will be assigned a permanent smartphone at birth. That will be considered your identity, and your physical body will just be considered an accessory to it.

Source?

I don't feel happy.

The end will come before we even come close to a Borg-like society.

We should avoid disregarding all morals when it comes to science, but we should also recognize the progress science can bring.

>faggotry
Why the homophobia?

You don't, but you're just one person.

>scientific knowledge?
truth is power.

missing the point this far

>What is the end goal of scientific knowledge?

practical application.

You're a brainlet ethics, morality and the concepts of good and evil do not exist.

The end goal of any being is to achieve Godhood and escape/control/reverse entropy and the heat death of the universe.

>achieve Godhood and escape/control/reverse entropy and the heat death of the universe

Yeah but then what? Just post on intergalatic Veeky Forums for all eternity?

Science _has_ no point other than curiosity and the fact that the more we know, the more we can control our environment.
Yeah, science can lead to bad ends. We could wipe ourselves out. Or we could cover the planet with a termite-city of a trillion inhabitants.
But at least we can make _choices_!

On the other hand, before Ben Franklin the only way to keep your building from being hit by lightning was prayer.
Which was usually ineffective.
Churches were among the last to adopt lightning rods because it was considered blasphemous to attempt to "thwart the will of God".
So churches with tall steeples kept burning down while the whorehouses did fine.
Eventually, the clergy gave in.