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> I don't really think your comparison with nuclear weapons works though The idea behind my comparison is simply, that we can engineer things much more dangero
by tomp 10y ago
> I don't really think your comparison with nuclear weapons works though
The idea behind my comparison is simply, that we can engineer things much more dangerous than nature can, that would never appear in nature by themselves.
- smspiff 10y agoWe're still a long way from being able to engineer things that are more dangerous than what nature has figured out. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-ray_burst https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-ray_burst
- TeMPOraL 10y agoIn this case, dangerous literally equals useful. Anything capable of working with vast amounts of energy is dangerous by the very virtue of humans being very fragile. Whether something is dangerous or useful is a function of how we handle/apply it. But, generally, that's what we do. With brains, we can do in a few months what would take natural selection millions of years to "discover". Doing that, using our brains, seems kind of like the whole point of being a human.