A tumor is a part of an organism that has mutated to play a much shorter game than the organism itself. Humanity seems to be a tumor on the biosphere. The industrial revolution is that happy moment when the host was switched to mostly delivering nutrients to the tumor.
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As far as we know, evolution does not have intentions - it proceeds by conjecture and criticism, essentially. And I think it could be argued that we're always 'causing' our extinction - namely, every solution we create carries some risk, and begets new problems.
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From my understanding evolution optimises for increasingly ordered complexity Hrm maybe we're just hitting a lot more of the barriers to growth than other species got a chance to reach
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The only way for life on earth *not* to be fundamentally limited (by e.g. solar expansion / nearby supernova) is if we keep discovering ways to prevent the kinds of disasters that would eventually annihilate it. Only progress can potentially *go* into the unknown future.
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We know biological evolution has not intentions. Neither does cultural evolution objectively. Life isn't more of a harmonious balance without our intervention. E.g. population explosions, famines, viral plagues, sudden drastic climate change (ice ages), species extinctions.
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