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Are other people made very uncomfortable by people like this looking down their nose at the entire species? I'm just not sure what these levels of defeatism and

• madaxe_again 11y ago
  It's not a question of looking down one's nose, rather that understanding that there are some really fundamental aspects of our own behaviour that are so deeply rooted we are practically blind to them that we must overcome if we're to adapt and survive. We are violently tribal. We are biased to short term reward over long term gain. Crack those two and you're well on the road to panacea. If we don't overcome them, we don't adapt, we don't survive. The universe is pretty big - something out there will hopefully make it through the great filter, if not us. Sure, from a selfish and anthropocentric point of view I want us to survive and prosper, but the reality is that we may not. We're not infinite and indefatigable. Right now, we are on the path to certain doom. This can change, but whether it will in time is down to getting pretty much all humans everywhere to pull together.