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the history of life on this planet is a story of immense and intense suffering. are you sure you want life to be such a common phenomenon in the universe? do
by exit 8y ago
the history of life on this planet is a story of immense and intense suffering.
are you sure you want life to be such a common phenomenon in the universe?
do you think the sense of wonder attached to zipping about in spaceships firing weapons at each other somehow redeems all that suffering?
- wongarsu 8y agoIf given the choice, would you end the human race to stop their suffering? Is life not worth some pain and suffering?
- exit 8y agoi would absolutely do so. no, no amount of "good life" is worth the lives that experience: - burning to death in a fire - dying slowly of cancer - being a transatlantic slave - dying in a concentration camp - slipping into schizophrenia in a medieval society to name a very very few compelling examples. no future can redeem our past. and how can you imagine these things happening many many times over through countless civilisations across the universe, but then regard it all as some delightful space opera? well of course, those who shrug and carry on breeding, or those who manage to rationalise it all to themselves, they populate the future. my sincere hope is that if a super intelligence emerges, it regards this world with a mind free from the survival desperation which being the product of an evolutionary process has imbued us with, and that it then rapidly sets about sterilising as much of its light cone as possible.