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Jonny Mack
@nonlinear.eth
"the intraterrestrial hypothesis" good read if you want to get high on new ideas and original thinking https://gfodor.medium.com/the-intraterrestrial-hypothesis-e1fb9ab6b774
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Royal
@royalaid.eth
Isn't a simple counterpoint the age of exploration? Like all the same things apply, latency, hostile environment, "virtual reality" of high society. And yet we still got bored and decided to FAFO. It's an interesting idea but I think it falls over with just a small amount of critique personally.
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Jonny Mack
@nonlinear.eth
not sure i follow, say more?
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Royal
@royalaid.eth
Looking at the implications section: > Implication 1: we will not expand. The one constant we have shown over thousands of years as humanity and civilization is a push to expand. Driven by ego, greed, or belief we ALWAYS expand. Age of exploration shows a similar point in history where we had a known part of the world and tamed most of it. Yet there was still this drive to push the boundaries. > We will not expand because we will come to abhor latency My brother in Christ, it used to take months to receive an update, we still went exploring > We will not expand because it would risk our own destruction Self interest should override this implication because the risk of ruin is not a concern for those who are explorers. > We will not expand because there is no motive Ego, greed, drive all override this. Columbus didn't have a motive beyond money/fame. Those motives will always exist.
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Royal
@royalaid.eth
My real issue is that it looks at society as a monolithic entity that works to intelligently optimize. That isn't what's happening. We are all just individuals of a complex adaptive system. At any given time people are working at odds with what is best for society but the general trend improves because the random walk of this chaos comes together to trend up. This upward trend happens despite, or perhaps because of, the individuals that go against the grain. Some of the time you get explorers that push out into the unknown just to push the darkness back and illuminate that there are no dragons. Some of the time you just get a bunch of people pushing around paper. Given the going against the historical trend, the reliance on heavily over emphasising recent tech (especially without seeing societal staying power), and also just giving me an "out of touch" vibe I just can't agree with what's being presented.
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