the metronomic regularity with which any scholarly work on human behavior reassures itself that something or another differentiates us from “the animals” is incredible who told you all that if you were no better than an animal you were going to sleep out behind the woodpile
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at this point i've basically been convinced that there is no fundamental rather than contingent distinction between humans and other animals just by how much effort people put into jerking themselves off about how there is one
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which is not to say that contingent distinctions are somehow less impactful. in fact, they are usually more impactful. but there's nothing special about being human. we're just apes. nature never does anything just once. I expect we'll find others like us sooner or later.
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I suspect there may be intelligent life out in the universe because it is highly probable. We are simply too boring for an advanced civilization to interact with. We could also simply be out of range.
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my "solution" to Fermi's Paradox is to try and extrapolate the expected average lifespan of a high-tech civilization and compare that against the vastness of interstellar distances.
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how many civs stay alive for more than, say, 20000 years? the galaxy is about 100000 light years across and billions of years old. if we do find another civ, we're likely to find millions-of-years-old ruins rather than another living civ.
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which is why we need to start building stellar megaproject sized statues of dinosaurs with lasers on their heads *now* vita brevis, ars longa
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