while an interesting idea, I'm pretty sure this is not actually the Great Filter, for the same reason global warming isn't: not powerful enough the social cancer phenomenon is self-limiting in the same way as actual cancer; thus, it's not a reliable way of killing specieshttps://twitter.com/CovfefeAnon/status/1275122143500668928 …
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Replying to @ded_ruckus
The power of the filter is that the survivors of the cancer are those who can't cooperate with people beyond a degree of relatedness. Does the cosa nostra colonize the solar system? Is there a infinite cycle where hajnal whites beat non-hajnal whites and die to the cancer?
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @ded_ruckus
The species doesn't have to die; merely be stuck
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon
it isn't even reliably stuck currently we're in a race between the collapse of the West and Elon successfully colonizing Mars; it's not foreclosed that he'll fail each cycle has a long period of coherent, high-accomplishment civilization that can do things
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Too soon to tell which side wins that race.
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