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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Or it could be that communicating in space is very dangerous and everyone who is both smart and alive is not doing it because it's dangerous, and those who were not smart enough are already dead.
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reapers gonna reap
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berserkers gonna berserk
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