It definitely does.
I'm not sure if it does *right now*, mind, but the Venn diagram of 1-planet species and technological advancement is called "extinction risk".
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I don't know how long that timeline needs to be, necessarily. There are people alive today who were adults when nukes were invented.
And that's a very finite game.
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I unironically wonder if global pandemic is as close as we're getting to a fighting chance.
We're at levels of embedded corruption that do resemble early medieval Europe. The Black Death really did a number on the power brokers back then.
But we are also interdependent now...
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Sometimes I look at all this and I wonder why I'm still messing around with sideshows like linguistics.
Doomer fatigue, maybe.
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Hey man, already I ditched the "stable career" of customer service to do linguistics.
It's definitely incredibly difficult to just learn on the fly, though hard to say what effect, if any, it's had on my IQ.
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Not sure what you mean by "IQ". Verbal IQ is only about 50% of the equation.
I should know. If verbal IQ was everything, my own IQ would be at least one standard deviation higher...
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