• Maeve
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    34 days ago

    Outside pressures are often the driving forces of evolution, and affect everything engaged in a particular process. Dawkins talked about this, iirc.

    Anyway, observing a thing changes it. There will always be latent effects. Maybe it’s not about individual learning, but collective learning, with a nod to Dawkins.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      44 days ago

      It would be great to think one day society would reward good people more often but we are still crawling to that goal

      • Maeve
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        44 days ago

        Maybe humans will become extinct and the process will continue without us.

        • @[email protected]OP
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          24 days ago

          What’s your prediction for our successors? Aliens? AI bots? Apes? What if we are the aliens that succeded the previous race? That could explain why our sun is so damaging to us.

          • Maeve
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            34 days ago

            I have no idea. We know what the sociopaths are working on singularity. We don’t know the species will survive long enough. Maybe a bug? Maybe an extraterrestrial life form.

            Eta: I recently read an article about nematodes organizing themselves into a superstructure. Idk they can survive rapid climate change or not.

            • @[email protected]OP
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              24 days ago

              That’s what that interstellar object recently seen flying into our solar system is all about. Maybe it won’t be that bad being the pet of some upper middle class giant cockroach alien family.