>brain size...is getting impacted with the usage of social media. While it's true that human brains have been shrinking, it's probably not due to social media

>brain size...is getting impacted with the usage of social media. While it's true that human brains have been shrinking, it's probably not due to social media - it's been happening for ages, for one thing. >physically less capable No. Your typical person is less capable, but if you hypothetically took people, taught them basic things about fire-starting, safe and unsafe foods, etc, and dropped them in the middle of some isolated forest, the ones who survived would probably wind up being just about as physically capable, if not more so, than your typical Stone Ager. > if this continues [first theory] That is unlikely. First of all, backups will likely exist. Print books continue to exist. Second of all, it is very difficult to live a life with no human interaction. Who will feed babies, teach children, et cetera? People - generally speaking - crave human interaction. Any AI/LLM that would be successful in eliminating the need for human teachers, caregivers, etc, would need to be very similar to them. We would still interact - maybe with robots, but still speak. Also, there are still uncontacted tribes, who would probably prosper. > And we become monkeys or worse chimpanzees 1) What's your deal with chimps? 2) We're actually closer evolutionarily to chimps than monkeys 3) I...don't think you understand evolution? > [parasite theory] It...uh... It takes 200 gigatons of TNT to blow up a 25 km asteroid.[1] Some quick Googling and extrapolation suggests that asteroid weighs about 32.75 billion tons - in other words, the amount of TNT it takes to destroy an asteroid weighs over six times as much as the asteroid. Possibly. It's hard to figure this out. While asteroids are unusually hard to blow up, probably, and of course it's possible this effect diminishes with size, and there are more effective ways to blow things up than TNT, blowing up the earth would require turning a significant portion of the earth into explosives. Earth has survived being impacted by something the size of Mars. I don't see humanity - or any species - feasibly destroying Earth, let alone the universe. (Please don't try to prove me wrong on this...) [1] https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/3/7/18251559/asteroid-blow-up-how-to https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/3/7/18251559/ast.... Written before DART.