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It will probably be the stuff "hidden" (it's really not, our eyes are just closed) behind many layers that will do us in on a major scale. While worrying about

by bserge 6y ago

It will probably be the stuff "hidden" (it's really not, our eyes are just closed) behind many layers that will do us in on a major scale. While worrying about nuclear weapons and weaponized viruses, we're strip mining the planet dry, creating extremely resource consuming stuff just to throw it in a landfill every year, while at the same time pumping the atmosphere and soil full of shit that kills plant life and other animals. So, when this process inevitably leads to a catastrophic breakdown of the planet and human society, we'll be like "ah shit, all the signs were there, but we didn't do anything". We should preemptively build a memorial for all the human lives that will be lost: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjfrJzdx7DA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjfrJzdx7DA

gnulinux 6y ago
There is a great science podcast called "ologies" every episode is on a different branch of science. There is one episode on "Eschatology" which is the scientific study of apocalypse (i.e. unrelated to religious, mythical apocalypse etc, eschatologists study the probability of things that can have existential risk to our species). In this episode eschatologist Phil Torres [1] claims that (according to some convincing estimates) humans living right now are a lot more likely to die due to a catastrophic event that can wipe out the entire species, compared to dying in a car crash. Since some of my relatives died in a car crash, I was scared of dying this way my entire life, and this put everything in such a weird perspective. As Hawking said, we're likely in the most dangerous part of the entire human history. If we don't get our shit together in the next few decades, our species will never see the next millenium. Go listen to this episode. It's on Spotify. (I'm not in any way affiliated with that podcast, I just listen to it every once in a while) [1]: https://twitter.com/Xriskology https://twitter.com/Xriskology

by bserge 6y ago

gnulinux 6y ago

There is a great science podcast called "ologies" every episode is on a different branch of science. There is one episode on "Eschatology" which is the scientific study of apocalypse (i.e. unrelated to religious, mythical apocalypse etc, eschatologists study the probability of things that can have existential risk to our species). In this episode eschatologist Phil Torres [1] claims that (according to some convincing estimates) humans living right now are a lot more likely to die due to a catastrophic event that can wipe out the entire species, compared to dying in a car crash. Since some of my relatives died in a car crash, I was scared of dying this way my entire life, and this put everything in such a weird perspective. As Hawking said, we're likely in the most dangerous part of the entire human history. If we don't get our shit together in the next few decades, our species will never see the next millenium. Go listen to this episode. It's on Spotify. (I'm not in any way affiliated with that podcast, I just listen to it every once in a while) [1]: https://twitter.com/Xriskology https://twitter.com/Xriskology