steadily confirms my hypothesis that humanity is "too stupid" to stop this, we will destroy ourselves like yeast producing too high alcohol concentrations. Evolution just didn't had to optimize for this, making us "stupid" as a society / species. Of course it starts now, but there is just too little time - the differential equation tipped too fast.
Might also be the solution to the great filter: Once optimization for the hard problem of "supremacy" / massive expansion is solved, there is too little time to optimize for self-regulation. There sure are possibilities to solve this, but require huge amounts of luck, e.g. discovering clean & especially cheaply salable energy sources quickly enough, adding another tiny coefficient to the drake equation
jneumann004|4 years ago
go_elmo|4 years ago
Might also be the solution to the great filter: Once optimization for the hard problem of "supremacy" / massive expansion is solved, there is too little time to optimize for self-regulation. There sure are possibilities to solve this, but require huge amounts of luck, e.g. discovering clean & especially cheaply salable energy sources quickly enough, adding another tiny coefficient to the drake equation
unknown|4 years ago
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earthtolazlo|4 years ago