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does anyone really think that humanity will be here in 200 years? 500 years? I think that's a real stretch. There are 100 ways we will go extinct, and we don't
by mbfg 5y ago
does anyone really think that humanity will be here in 200 years? 500 years? I think that's a real stretch. There are 100 ways we will go extinct, and we don't care about any of them.
- TchoBeer 5y agoI get that, but we survived the world wars and the cold war, so I hold out some hope.
- howaboutnope 5y agoFor me the question isn't if there will be warm bodies around, but if they will have agency, dignity, a longing for justice and a capability for empathy, plus a lot of other things at least I associate with humans being human, rather than appendages of machinery that accumulates power without any use for it other than accumulating more power.
- mbfg 5y agoyes. but we were far less capable of killing ourselves then. The further we go, the more easily we will find it to kill ourselves.
- imtringued 5y agoWe might lose billions on the way but I don't really see why humanity wouldn't survive with 10 million people alive in 500 years assuming extinction level natural disasters.