Right now our feedback loops are occurring because we are not really changing anything in what we do.
There’s an important distinction between the types of feedback loops. We’re dealing with positive feedback loops, which are exceptionally dangerous because they’ll just continue to spiral until something blocks them from progressing.
Our positive feedback loops occurred because we are not really changing anything in what we do. They’re occurring because they’re self-aggravating. Our continued bullshit may serve as an accelerant at this point, but it isn’t necessary for the feedback loop to continue.
Yes, historically there has always been a successor to this planet’s mass-extinction events, but we can’t really point to that as proof that some other critter will step in for the next one - outside of this planet, we’ve yet to find a single example of life, so I’d argue that evidence points to ‘life, uh, finding a way’ being a ridiculously rare exception to the universal norm of the absence of life. Life is fragile, and to the best of our knowledge, all of life’s eggs are in one basket. And we’ve set that basket on fire.
Sounds like we need to generate our own panspermia situation here… Just throw a falcon rocket atars with everything available that we have to survive and mutate onto mars. Fuck it. Let’s be space orcs up in this bitch.
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There’s an important distinction between the types of feedback loops. We’re dealing with positive feedback loops, which are exceptionally dangerous because they’ll just continue to spiral until something blocks them from progressing.
Our positive feedback loops occurred because we are not really changing anything in what we do. They’re occurring because they’re self-aggravating. Our continued bullshit may serve as an accelerant at this point, but it isn’t necessary for the feedback loop to continue.
Yes, historically there has always been a successor to this planet’s mass-extinction events, but we can’t really point to that as proof that some other critter will step in for the next one - outside of this planet, we’ve yet to find a single example of life, so I’d argue that evidence points to ‘life, uh, finding a way’ being a ridiculously rare exception to the universal norm of the absence of life. Life is fragile, and to the best of our knowledge, all of life’s eggs are in one basket. And we’ve set that basket on fire.
Sounds like we need to generate our own panspermia situation here… Just throw a falcon rocket atars with everything available that we have to survive and mutate onto mars. Fuck it. Let’s be space orcs up in this bitch.