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Makes me sad there are people making the offer. It's pretty clear we're screwed as a civilization. As tech gets more powerful, the same people making these off
by nox101 2y ago
Makes me sad there are people making the offer.
It's pretty clear we're screwed as a civilization. As tech gets more powerful, the same people making these offers as well as the same people doing cyberlockers, etc will do the same with bio-tech, nano-tech and anything else then can extort others with. They'll infect you with virus to which only they have the antidote, etc....
- hhejrkrn 2y ago[flagged]
- kibwen 2y agoAn intelligent species would extrapolate forward and realize that the ruthless pursuit of infinite resource expenditure is a guaranteed path to annihilation. If the game is self-destruction, then the winning move is not to play.
- daedrdev 2y agoWe aren't going to run out of efficiency gains anytime soon. And with a declining population projected, the whole infinite resources argument is less important since we can grow per person with less people
- hhejrkrn 2y agoHow do you get an intelligent species??
- rapind 2y agoWe should ask them when we meet them.
- Grimblewald 2y agoIt is most certainly not the only way to evolve and more importantly, while it can be cost effective short term, it is destructive long term. Long term everyone loses, and a concious intelligent being taking control of an evolutionary process should know not to partake in selfish destructive behaviour, otherwise is it really intelligent?
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- MichaelZuo 2y agoHow do you know there is any ‘way to evolve’ ? Let alone multiple… It’s possible for all promising pathways to last for hundreds of millions of years and then hit a dead end… just because a really big comet came by or some other random event.
- Grimblewald 2y agoAnything that ensures you have higher success in reproduction than others causes your traits to be over-expressed in the next generation, where if these traits are passed onto your offspring somehow, be it because they are genetically encoded, socially encoded and you have social contact with your offspring to a degree where you pass these behavioural traits on etc. then any of those things will count as an avenue through which your lineage, and therefor your species, can evolve. Now, the traditional evolutionary pressures, coming from environmental stressors have largely not impacted our species in quite some time. Don't like the climate? do we evolve because some people are better sutied and therefore reproduce more readily? no. We built climate control. We have some pathogen, where some folks are less susceptible to the pathogen? no. We develop medication to fight the disease. However, we do have socio-economic pressures which are not being dealt with through technology like we deal with environmental pressures, so these still exist, and are complicated. Arguably more complicated than ever before. There's your economic strategy, social strategy, migratory strategy etc. all of which impact your and your offspring's reproductive success, in turn creating evolutionary pressures that lead to entrenching certain traits. Evolution stops only when the current average is the best suited to the current environment, or when the current environment removes all selective pressure.
- MichaelZuo 2y agoDid you reply to the wrong comment? If not, how does this relate to my previous question?
- tomrod 2y agoEusociality is a counterexample to your assertion.
- hhejrkrn 2y agoNo? That is an evolved adaption to a world with adversaries and a need to survive.