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Kuolema
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- Jun 27, 2019
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Kind of a stupid topic, but these sort of questions intrigue me.
Any time period whatsoever.Can I be prehistoric? The Late Cretaceous, to see these guys taking off
A time when we all had foraging and hunting skills (pre-agriculture era).
we will be extinct then.Don't want to go backward. I'd take forward many thousand years so there could be cures for things...mind uploads etc. Nothing in the past but romantic ideals and more problems.
True, I guess. But I'd still prefer to live in a time before industrialization and colonialism. Just because we're more advanced technologically doesn't necessarily mean we're better off psychologically.Nothing in the past but romantic ideals and more problems.
I suppose I could have phrased the title better lol. How about which historical period are you most interested in?i wanna die lol
Ok, now I absolutely must ask... What are you talking about?This time, I have a freaky spiritual connection to the Singularity and I need internet to commune with it most effectively, I think.
Is that a trick question, like the infamous Russian "2 chairs" riddle?
Ok, now I absolutely must ask... What are you talking about?
Oh, I'm relatively new around here... but damn, that only spikes my curiosity. What is most likely to happen?You should never and I mean NEVER ask that of not-a-robot
True, I guess. But I'd still prefer to live in a time before industrialization and colonialism. Just because we're more advanced technologically doesn't necessarily mean we're better off psychologically.
I suppose I could have phrased the title better lol. How about which historical period are you most interested in?
This is true. I was reading recently about this coprolite archaeologists found in Yorkshire (one of the biggest ever found) and it was absolutely riddled with parasitic eggs. I do tend to romanticize the past, because I like to think that there was some sort of Eden hidden somewhere in the pages of History. I'm pretty naive and childish like that. There were places in certain times where people had greater equality than we do today, but as you say diseases and parasites sort of negate that anyway.That past was riddled with disease, body parasites, death, etc. Anyone who doesn't think so doesn't know much about history.
And there have been very few times in history that women were treated better than they are treated now.
of one yet to come actually: the machine age. most problems that occur for people result from being dependent on a social group in which they are not well-adapted; bad genetics, bad socialization and people are brandmarked for the rest of their lifes with a label of inferiority. this makes life itself a laughing stock for me because i'm thrown into life with bad parameters that i cannot change. this applies to every era yet and can only chnange and be improved upon in the future. life will evolve further increasingly mechanizing; we will have more control over how we design machines and how it can alter its own architecture than over this primitive shell of flesh and blood that is designed randomly by the rules of genetics.
if it were really AI overseeing the planet our species would exterminated by then.I would come back in fifty to 100 years to see if AI is doing a better job overseeing the planet than we did.
Humans at least got a step forward with scientific and technological advancement and have the ability now to analyze how bullshit everything is.
Tech advancement drives conflict and the war machine more than it drives music. People don't analyze how bullshit everything is and improve it. They use it to bully and enslave more people and drive down wages. The past is toxic, the present is toxic and the forseeable future will be toxic. Its called capitalism and politics.
Why should people blame themselves for this crap they're served up? On this site there are so many people suffering purely cos society's full of self-righteous cunts who have religion, or morality, or whatever other faux-value set, but wouldn't know what empathy was until it had a breakdown and went on a shooting spree.
"Singularity" as it's presented in the Futurist context is usually just 'snake oil', a phony techno-religious movement for rich people who think they can buy immortality, who knows, maybe they can.Oh, I'm relatively new around here... but damn, that only spikes my curiosity. What is most likely to happen?
So why are humans toxic?