well was fun knowing you...
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The traits that allow a species to achieve global dominance are not compatible with long term survival.
Sure they are. When tempered with other obvious evolutionary advantages like foresight and valuing the needs of the community above ludicrous individual hoarding.
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Because of money.
No, not really.
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So you don't think money is power, and your don't think information is power either. What is?
They are saying it is more general than money or information, that those are power but those specifically are not special. If we had a society without money, something else would occupy the same purpose of the psychological need of humans "to get more" to be on top.
They aren't saying "money isn't important to that", they are saying "money isn't important to that".
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Rich White People: "Humans are simply incapable of self-governance. They are too violent, too prone to conflict, too hell bent on self-obliteration. I suppose we are doomed as a species to exterminate ourselves and all other life surrounding us."
Every Other Socio-Economic Group: "STAHP! PLEASE STAHP!!!!"
Typical Lemmy comment.
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The basic cycle of mass extinction is that an organism becomes too successful and breaks the ecosystem in ways that more complex life has trouble surviving.
So, yeah, an intelligent species has to prove itself capable of self control to not destroy its own environment or at least capable enough to spread before it does.
Yep, and our energy consumption is probably the biggest test of that self-control. We're burning through millions of years of stored sunlight in a couple centuries. If we don't figure out sustainable power generation soon, we're toast. I've been researching backup power options at gearscouts.com and the $/Wh efficiency of LFP batteries is getting way better, but we need grid-scale solutions.
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I once saw someone exclude AI apocalypse from list of existential risks on the grounds that the AI lives on even if we don't.
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I once saw someone exclude AI apocalypse from list of existential risks on the grounds that the AI lives on even if we don't.
AI jumps out of its server farm to go refill the generator tanks?
I'm not sure about that.
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White people?
Remember kids, racism is okay if MY Group does it.
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AI jumps out of its server farm to go refill the generator tanks?
I'm not sure about that.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]robots and drones and stuff exist. If the AI is capable of exterminating humans I'm sure it can figure out robotics.
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Mother nature made us more clever than other animals but didn't give us any additional wisdom. So we destroy our environment and overshoot our population the same as any other species.
Too bad our environment is 'everywhere.' Perhaps nature wanted to commit suicide and so spawned us.
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Greed and lack of vision aren't flaws exclusive to white people. Implying such is racist.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]That's literally not what they said, or implied. I hope you're just bad at reading and social comprehension, someone else may take up explaining it to you.
Unless you're a bot or a paid actor. (Or did the writer edit their comment to add "rich" after you posted? That might be implied by the couple of comments below.)
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Yep, and our energy consumption is probably the biggest test of that self-control. We're burning through millions of years of stored sunlight in a couple centuries. If we don't figure out sustainable power generation soon, we're toast. I've been researching backup power options at gearscouts.com and the $/Wh efficiency of LFP batteries is getting way better, but we need grid-scale solutions.
It's only about energy storage and will. We've had clean, safe nuclear designs for over half a century, it is purely greed that has deluded even many of those that claim to defend the environment that keeps us on the path to self annihilation.
Reminder that Chernobyl was doomed from the outset because it was made to serve two masters: power AND weapons grade enrichment.
Technology hasn't been the bottleneck, greed has. I will never forget or forgive my species for priorities like these:
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That's literally not what they said, or implied. I hope you're just bad at reading and social comprehension, someone else may take up explaining it to you.
Unless you're a bot or a paid actor. (Or did the writer edit their comment to add "rich" after you posted? That might be implied by the couple of comments below.)
wrote on last edited by [email protected]They quite literally painted the picture as rich white people vs everyone else, including rich not-white people (see: Every other Socio-Economic group).
Getting real tired of people with bad reading comprehension talking shit about reading comprehension.
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I've been floating the idea that evolution is the ultimate culprit. Add intelligence to "most prolific, genetically" and get capitalism, then late stage capitalism in our technological age, and viola...
I've been told I'm insane, though, so take it with a grain of salt
Well, that ending might lead one to believe there's maybe a smidge of insanity.
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Dont worry, there will be others. We're just one of the first precursor species.
Not a particularly interesting one, but still.
I just hope that when another sentient species evolves they will learn from our ruins.
