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What? Even in popular culture it has been uncontroversial since at least the nuclear age to posit that humanity faces serious existential risks in the near and
by galdosdi 4y ago
What? Even in popular culture it has been uncontroversial since at least the nuclear age to posit that humanity faces serious existential risks in the near and mid future. You're questioning this? You think there is nothing at all risky about any of the many powerful new technologies we've developed over the last couple centuries? I'm a little perplexed. What do you know that we all don't?
Or are you merely referring to the OP's tone? I am looking mainly at their substantive point, not their tone.
> The third paragraph makes you sound like you ARE a religious fundamentalist, albeit from a different tradition. "Fundamentally change as a species?" "Great Filters?" "The road is fraught with many perils?" "Unimaginable suffering?" I don't mean to be rude, but do you realize how you sound?
- tboyd47 4y agoThe writing suddenly became bombastically hyperbolic and poetic, with references to concepts the average person would have no context on. Sounds like religious fundamentalism to me. It was just interesting to have those two styles juxtaposed like that.
- galdosdi 4y agoI only see one reference: The Great Filter is a reference to the Drake Equation, which is pretty well known by STEM nerds, especially those interested in space and astronomy. Certainly seen it mentioned many times on this site. I don't see any other references at all?