(1998) Sadly in this year of 2023 it's clear that no, we're running headlong into it. Personally though I suspect there is no one filter, just a series of them

(1998) Sadly in this year of 2023 it's clear that no, we're running headlong into it. Personally though I suspect there is no one filter, just a series of them. Nuclear weapons are a filter. Climate change is a filter. Future biotech is a filter. Probably future nanotech is a filter. There's always going to be some new tech we create long before our human nature has adapted us to its responsible use, and each one carries a risk of setting our civilization back so far it never recovers. That's the filter, the nature of organisms which reach the point we do is the filter itself.