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Literal survivorship bias. Our ancestors did, but many others did not.
by mmanfrin 9y ago
Literal survivorship bias. Our ancestors did, but many others did not.
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- ianai 9y agoFrom what I’ve read, they’re talking about a cooling event. We’re talking about entire sections of the earth becoming uninhabitable by even modern day civilization. As someone who just moved from very hot to dry but cooler, you can always heat a place up easily but cooling down is never enough.
- XR0CSWV3h3kZWg 9y agoIt seems like heat dissipation is one of the problems that will be with us for a loong time.
- Aloha 9y agoHumanity may very well survive. You may not.
- quickthrower2 9y agoHumanity is a temporary situation. We're going extinct or going to evolve into something else eventually.
- tasty_freeze 9y agoQ: "What do you want on your pizza?" A: "I don't care; eventually I'll be dead anyway" While a true statement, it minimizes the real implications of a valid question.
- quickthrower2 9y agoI take your point. Yummy pizza definitely snaps me out of existentialism.
- rukittenme 9y agoNot to pick on you but this is a common misconception of evolution. You don't outgrow your ancestry. You are and your descendants always will be human. Just as they will always be primates and mammals and animals.
- Aloha 9y agoBased on how evolution has gone over hundreds of thousands of years - I cant say I agree with you - but mostly in the concept of human-centric-time - yeah, I'd agree with you - no substantive change happens over 10 generations, but over 10,000 generations? yes. Look at dogs, they evolved from wolves, and while both are still canids, we'd for sure call a dog, not a wolf.
- rukittenme 9y agoNo. Dogs did not evolve from modern wolves. They evolved from a common ancestor of both dogs and wolves. If we call that common ancestor "wolves" as we call the modern wolf it is the fault of language not of cladistics.
- quickthrower2 9y agoThat's just due to human categorization and labelling of things, but isn't an absolute truth. My feeling is if we evolve into something with just a brain and no body (with the help of technology perhaps) then that is something else. But you can also argue it is still human if that species has the same emotions. But maybe it wont.
- pbreit 9y agoAre there actual cases of those who did not?
- mmanfrin 9y ago... from 11,000 years ago? Are you honestly asking this?
- maxerickson 9y agoSure why not. I guess it isn't likely, but imagine if there was a similar settlement near the one in the article that disappeared right around 11,000 years ago.