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There is so much going on today that makes me fearful for the existential future of humanity: climate change, nuclear weapons, resource depletion, artificial in
by rm_-rf_slash 10y ago
There is so much going on today that makes me fearful for the existential future of humanity: climate change, nuclear weapons, resource depletion, artificial intelligence, to name a few.
But strangely enough, a ticking cosmic countdown makes me feel oddly at peace with an ultimate future of extinction. I can only hope that the end of humanity will not be wrought by its own hands.
Makes me want to enjoy my time alive more, with the people I care about.
- basch 10y agoit would probably be more impressive if humans led to their own extinction, than if cosmic forces ended us.
- rm_-rf_slash 10y agoA lot of species threaten their existence by their own self-interest. Lemmings regularly lurch from near extinction to explosive overpopulation every few years.