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Bingo. This is the chasm that needs to be crossed. Its not just the immediate advantage your species gets from intelligence. It’s cultivating that to a point w
by r3trohack3r 6y ago
Bingo.
This is the chasm that needs to be crossed. Its not just the immediate advantage your species gets from intelligence. It’s cultivating that to a point where you realize all life on this planet is default extinct. Then getting your species to the point where you even have a _chance_ of changing that default.
Humans are still default extinct. We are on a path to changing that default.
- hooande 6y agoto follow up on the point above, how do you know that leaving earth is the only way to escape extinction? that's only what you can imagine given the technology available, just like someone living in 320 couldn't conceive of space travel. I agree that the ultimate purpose of any species is to continue to exist. I'm just skeptical because your definition of that is so related to modern science fiction
- chrisco255 6y agoI mean eventually the sun will lose energy and hell, a planet destroying asteroid could hit at any time.
- ancientworldnow 6y agoNo we're not, at best we're just changing the timeline. You're still either time bound by the death of the universe best case scenario or resource bound before that happens (if the universe can "end"). Extinction is inevitable at any timescale.
- chrisco255 6y agoWell the whole point of the game of life is to keep the game going for as long as possible.