If that were the case, wouldn’t the ones who didn’t get the genetic engineering be far more likely to reproduce and stride along with natural selection? I have a hard time seeing that event ever happening, short of the human population en mass deciding to engineer every baby on the planet before a single generation of which could have lived life and been studied for its effects.

What I think is more likely as a great filter is humans eventually settling on the idea that organic matter is really terrible medium for life. So, something with much more longevity, strength, efficiency, and brain power gets synthesized and we move in. At a certain point, wouldn’t biological life die off because life tends to yield to its more evolved forms? If us meat bags had to compete, how could we?

and I think there are more interesting answers to the Fermi Paradox than the Great Filter. For example, the expansion of space not being something we can overcome in travel. Or, maybe the way we perceive space is just so anthropic—we’re making poor assumptions about other beings.

Why would you use something useless like kg that means nothing in 99.999…% of the natural universe?

By my math you’re referring to a backpack weighing about (3.7–4.6) × 10⁸ Planck masses.

Trust me, as some weird modern form of atheistic deist, I am not advocating for religion. But there’s something to be said about community values and how it overcomes the issues you’ve mentioned. Church goers don’t seem to struggle as much with getting their schedules in order, making time for community events, doing community service… when these things are seen as virtuous under the eye of their god, they get it done.

What are we missing now that makes modern life lack this community connection it once benefited from and religious folk seem to still have? What’s missing, why’d it go, and how can we get it back?

You need to wipe it in honey first, and cover the honey in cinnamon. Then take a toothpick and push it through the center of that. Then, kid you not, chocolate syrup. Put it in the freezer and it’ll last a millennium.

PC gamers under 30 would be considered a significant minority compared to other <30yos?

Hmm… I don’t know. 30-50yos are raising kids right now. That’s a whole lot of 0-21orso year olds living in the bracket where people have PCs.

Then you have college students filling the gap, who likely have a laptop at least.

Her answer was insightful enough to know that Schumer leaving could mean you just get Schumer 2.0. The problem is bigger than one person. Schumer should go, yeah, but more importantly—the problem (of which Schumer is a manifestation) should go. Fight for change, not a facade thereof.

intergalactic tour guide: now if you look to your left, you’ll see the natural habitats of the Xpheno217 species. This is the only location in the whole universe they can live. And to your right, a brand new residential community fit with Walmart and their very own Chick-fil-A.

1-4¢? Eh, make it $2 nobody will notice. /s

There was once a time when people educated themselves not because they wanted a particular job in the economy, but because they saw value in education and wanted to participate in the human tradition of advancing the specie’s ability to understand and use nature. You didn’t need school to be a blacksmith, for example, but perhaps just an apprenticeship (experience).

There’s a point to be made here, about how this degrades the value of education. It’s great for capitalism, making survival—or “living well”—contingent on qualifications derived from paid education. But what have we lost in this process? It feels, to me at least, like we’ve created a culture where education is a mere lineitem on a checklist. How might that change what education is, what it’s expected to be, and what sort of innovation comes from it?

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Why do you think they’re even interested? Is it practice on political influence by force, before doing something in house? Is it to prevent the spread of something like socialist democracy? If only to beat the drum of local news, why Venezuela specifically and why was the impact on Venezuela planned out so specifically?

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Accidents can happen even before you eat. Preparing the chicken might mean contaminating your hands, a knife, a cutting board, and your countertop if there’s even a small amount of water flowing out the meat. You put all that in the sink, wash your hands, but… by washing your hands, were you careful enough not to contaminate the water valve on your kitchen sink? How about the soap dispenser? Did you make certain nobody touched the countertop before you sanitized it? There’s a lot of ways something can go wrong when working with dangerous substances.

I really don’t want to peddle conspiracy, but if we’re talking speculation… I’ve heard speculation that human clones could be used for organ harvesting to extend the life of someone. Specifically, this theory was floating around when someone overheard Putin and Xi talking about living to 150 years old (or something to that effect).

Edit: here’s an article about the 150yo comment: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr70rvrd41ko

Thanks for this added perspective. I’m not surprised, but I did not know nor did it even occur to me that some of them may be paid shills.

Will I fall into this obvious trap for discussing the grotesque volume of time spent on the Olive Garden app? No. No i will not. … fuck.

(Cries in Big Mac sauce.)

Watch the 20 v 1 where Mehdi from Zeteo takes on a bunch of MAGA folk. They’re all 20-30 years old and it’s fucking crazy how many of them are blatantly racist and/or fascist. I’ll have to come back with the video link for you guys.

Edit: here you go https://youtu.be/2S-WJN3L5eo