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Asymptotic burnout and homeostatic awakening: a solution to the Fermi paradox?
- RecycledEle 2y agoMy guess, and it is only a guess, is that any civilization that could colonize the galaxy dies off from easily preventable problems. They fail to prevent these easily preventable problems because their equivalent of copyright lawyers and ego-driven (r)eddit moderators delete every public posting of the solutions to their problems. These solutions are independently developed and posted thousands of times, but they are always deleted or shadow-banned. The negative effects of deleting solutions are exacerbated by the malicious destruction of the reputations of the authors of the solutions. This leads to a society where cruel backstabbers get promoted while solution finding engineers are ground down. Imagine a world where an Elon Musk (minus the showmanship) is only worth minimum wage while a guy whose only contribution is to complain about imagined grievances and sabotage his coworkers gets promoted to CEO.
- ChainOfFools 2y ago> while a guy whose only contribution is to complain about imagined grievances and sabotage his coworkers gets promoted to CEO. This post has a rather keen personal edge to it, as if this fail-up template was inspired by firsthand witness to the toxic behavior and consequent unmerited success of someone... very specific?
- alan-hn 2y agoElon Musk without the showmanship is basically nothing