Most of the species on earth will go extinct again

FTFY

Humanity having enough power that their mistakes can destroy the world isn’t normal.

As someone born in the cold war, I can’t relate. It’s always been this way as long as I’ve been alive, so if something has been a way as long as anyone can remember, I think it’s pretty safe to call it “normal” at least for our species. This is what we do, this is how we operate.

I really believe if we accepted that our human nature gives us a lot of very bad baggage and our entire conscious experience is often an illusion assembled by millions of years of evolution, and that we may never rise above our instincts, we actually might start making progress towards a more equitable future.

Kinda like when you’re an alcoholic or other kind of addict, if you finally accept that you have a problem, you learn eventually that you can’t trust yourself so you make measures ahead of time like hiding your wallet, disabling your credit card, etc. It’s wild that a lot of people consider very successful tactics like this to be a “cop out” and live in this delusion that we “should be better” and can somehow rise above our own natures. Like telling a fish it can fly if it really, really tries hard enough. It’s setting you up for failures and frustrations.

This is actually touching on a real new approach to mental healthcare, which is just accepting that “life is shit” and you’re kinda on your own to find meaning in it, or get to the next high-point that makes it worth living.

We have to stop expecting things to be stable, normal and comfortable. We had a good, smooth run, things are going back to normal now.

How TF old are you people anyway?

Are you all literally as old as the kid in the pic? Who can relate to this??

No, avoiding contention is why we’re in this mess and why the world is segregated again.

But I’m not going to say “Go argue on the internet” I am going to tell everyone to get the fuck over their social issues and just TALK to the people in your life who hold shitty positions and are either dimwitted about politics, uninvolved or being brainwashed by social media. They can be turned, I do it ALL THE TIME and I feel like I’m the only fucking human left who doesn’t feel overwhelming fear engaging with another human ffs.

The deflection/projection is strong in that one.

Lemmy isn’t a competition.

All social media is competition. We just don’t like admitting it.

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I bet I could harvest bags of salt from a “look how sassy i am” terminally online account like this, but some of us have better things to do than just make other people mad for attention. Have a good one out there. Hope you don’t get banned from everywhere.

I don’t think anyone cares. Nice two pages of ban history.

anarchocapitalism is still anarchism

Sounds more like people who want to have luxuries and comforts and money but don’t want to have anyone telling them what they can and can’t do.

Sounds about right for the current fascist techbro community.

This is also my plan, but for real.

Our brains were never meant to be so over-exposed to so many conflicting messages all day, every day, and a lot of powerful people are exploiting this fact to an absurd degree.

I disagree and have also done plenty of reading on the topic.

I don’t disagree to say that “you’re wrong and even wild silly things are possible!” but I’m saying that it’s a lot more accurate to say that we don’t know what real-world systems can and cannot do. Your model is from a pure mathematical and physical point of view, which would be correct. But we don’t know if our knowledge of quantum mechanics and physics broadly is even complete (probably not) so I have grown quite fond of the far more succinct answer of “I don’t know.”

Generally people get really invested in this because it either validates or invalidates some belief, mystical or material, about the universe, but I don’t think it’s an answerable question until we find out if infinities can even exist in a tangible way. Most likely not, at least in our limited understanding.

I’ve just got everything I need, and I’m waiting for something amazing

This, it’s a feeling of weird freedom… you’re packed and have your most essential things and you’re leaving the bounds of Earth.

Given long enough periods of time, if your typewriters were magically immune to entropy, they would eventually start quantum teleporting into each other, and eventually would accidentally create perfect clockwork mecha-godzilla made entirely out of typewriters.

I have argued with plenty of theists, they tend to cherry-pick parts of every idea to validate their extreme fear of death/God, so they hyper-fixate on the idea that “fantastic things” can happen with infinities, without addressing the problems that also come from infinities.

The idea behind the monkeys/typewriters thought experiment is to highlight just how problematic actual infinities would be in our universe, it’s an argument against things like gods occuring, because in an infinite, unbounded universe there would be an infinite number of infinitely powerful beings negating each other all out over large enough scales.

If you’re talking magical, biologically accurate monkeys, then they will eventually shit out models of every scene of your life, replicated in perfect detail in monkey feces. Not just once, but an infinite number of times, and also in every possible configuration your life may have ever existed in, every choice you could have made. An infinite number of times.

I fully relate, I adore “strange experiences” and hotels can absolutely provide that.

People look at me like I’m strange for loving airports. I’ve been to so many, all around the world, and it’s always this constant, always this focused energy and constrained anticipation, everyone, everywhere scrambling to this fantastic act that we do with casual ease, flying across the world and we treat it with such outward indifference, but you see it in almost everyone’s eyes, as soon as the plane starts to move, people’s masks fall and you see either the fear or excitement, the glances out the windows, the building intensity, the sudden launch into the sky as we all collectively break the apparent rules of nature and do something fantastic.

It never gets old.

I agree, and I think it’s an absolutely fascinating area to study, because it does touch on some very important questions about our universe. We still don’t know if on the most fundamental levels, if our universe is constrained in some way, or if given enough time everything can change including those constants. I think about this a lot, but there are a surprising number of people who can’t grasp the ideas and problems, so apologies if I came on strong, I just want to make sure we’re all talking about the same things.