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Honest question: what do we really risk in the grand scheme of things? Extinction? Would that negatively affect anything other than our egos? (For the record,

• c7DJTLrn 6y ago
  I think it would be a great shame if the only self-aware life in the observable universe dies out before it can find out the mechanisms behind all of this. Sometimes when I'm trying to doze off at night, I think about how strange our existence is. Not even the smartest people on this planet have any idea how or why the universe exists. We might never find out. We might be a simulation operated by higher beings, but that raises even more questions. Argh, what I would give to know.
• dTal 6y ago
  It would negatively affect virtually every value system ever created. If human extinction isn't "bad", then nothing is "bad". Anyone that nihilistic clearly lacks any framework to assign value judgements to anything, and therefore has no business participating in any decision-making discussion (such as "should we travel to the stars").
• akvadrako 6y ago
  Certainty without humans or other spacefaring life all other species on Earth will go extinct. Does that really matter in the grand scheme of things or is it just ego? edit: To take it further, without some super-intelligent / supernatural beings it seems likely all structure in the universe will eventually disappear due to a heat death or a big crunch. Does even that matter? My take is that we are just too young to have any idea what really matters in the grand scheme so the best approach is just try to survive.