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...ironic to discover life on another planet just as we're hitting the Great Filter here.
by robterrell 6y ago
...ironic to discover life on another planet just as we're hitting the Great Filter here.
- ithkuil 6y ago... ironic to discover Greatly Filtered life on another planet
- jdmoreira 6y agoare we really? Could you explain exactly what you believe the great filter to be?
- vermilingua 6y agoTake your pick: climate change, nuclear holocaust, Kessler syndrome, we’re headed for a bunch of great filters with nobody hitting the brakes.
- ars 6y agoYou forgot the cell phone. No one is ever bored anymore, and all those serendipitous discoveries no longer happen. When was the last time you heard of a real genius? Or something genuinely new, rather than just slightly better than what came before it?
- greesil 6y agoHow about a reusable rocket ship?
- ars 6y agoThe space shuttle was meant to be reusable - it was built 40 years ago in 1980. I'm not saying there is no new tech, it just all seems incremental, not revolutionary. When I was younger every day it seemed there was something new. Today, not so much.
- 2bitencryption 6y agoSounds more like a problem with your perception than a problem with all of civilization.
- throwaway316943 6y agoYou might just need to pay attention to the right things. Genetics is making steady progress and promises to revolutionize almost everything. Machine learning seems to be applicable to most things and if only suffering from a lack of optimization. The road to space is opening and we’re about to find out just how many new technologies will be made possible with unlimited solar power, microgravity, and untapped resources.
- mhh__ 6y agoAnd the space shuttle was crap. (I'm being overly dramatic, but it had severe flaws)
- ALittleLight 6y ago"meant to be" versus rockets that land and can be reused.
- bee_rider 6y agoThat could be it, but it also could be just that all the low hanging fruit is all taken. Like Newton is a genius for coming up with an equation for making delta-x really small, I could have come up with that and I don't even dabble in alchemy.
- y-c-o-m-b 6y agoThey are implying the great filter is actually the current step (advancing towards colonization explosion). The next step would be colonization explosion (aka colonizing space or other planets), but that could be cut short due to civilization eradicating itself. This is thought to happen either via climate change, nuclear war, or artificial intelligence wiping us out. I personally am not a fan of the AI destruction theory because I'd expect AI to replace us and expand into the solar system. If it got to the point where it could kill all organic life, then I'd bet it's unlikely for AI to die off with us as well. Just my opinion though...
- lurquer 6y agoExtinction-level pandemic caused by the Venusian microbes they will soon bring to Earth.
- vmception 6y agoWe need a moon base
- api 6y agoWe already have the ISS
- zaptrem 6y agoHow likely would it be that extraterrestrial microbes evolved for living in clouds would have just happened to evolve to also be pathogenic in humans?
- stupendousyappi 6y agoHow likely is it that a virus evolved for living in civet cats just happened to evolve to also be pathogenic in bats and humans?
- Tossrock 6y agoToby Ord's book The Precipice does a good job evaluating them. Top contenders are AI, bioengineered viruses, nuclear war, and climate change, with natural disasters that we fail to avert/mitigate, like asteroid impact or supervolcano eruption as a distant aslo-ran.
- TeMPOraL 6y agoStupidity. Venus looks about like what Earth will look like in a couple centuries if we do nothing about the climate problem.