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Humans Are Doomed to Go Extinct

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Re: Humans Are Doomed to Go Extinct

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post #12

This is a load of drivel. Population growth is leveling off because it takes a few generations for cultural behaviors to adapt to the fact that infant mortality magically disappeared in an evolutionary blink of an eye. Humans have plenty of genetic diversity, the critical population (the number where genetic variation increases due to random mutations faster than it is lost to inbreeding) for humans is something like…

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Re: Humans Are Doomed to Go Extinct

#23
post #12

This is a load of drivel. Population growth is leveling off because it takes a few generations for cultural behaviors to adapt to the fact that infant mortality magically disappeared in an evolutionary blink of an eye. Humans have plenty of genetic diversity, the critical population (the number where genetic variation increases due to random mutations faster than it is lost to inbreeding) for humans is something like…

> Humans will not last forever, nothing does, but there isn't a species on earth I'd bet on to outlast us. My money is on Jellyfish, cockroaches, and whole families of bacteria.

Cockroaches' prosperity relies on human's.

Re: Humans Are Doomed to Go Extinct

#25
post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's arrogant about what I wrote?

Your arrogance is in the timescale your assumption operates in and not seeing the interdependence between man, nature, and unknowns. This is incredibly arrogant. I'm not using the word in the pejorative sense (I'm not calling you names), but in one that's better described as hubris.

Awful lot of assumptions you're making there. One might even say it's arrogant and hubristic.

Re: Humans Are Doomed to Go Extinct

#26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Humans will not last forever, nothing does, but there isn't a species on earth I'd bet on to outlast us. My money is on Jellyfish, cockroaches, and whole families of bacteria.

Cockroaches' prosperity relies on human's.

but they can survive without us, just be less prosperous.

Re: Humans Are Doomed to Go Extinct

#27
post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your arrogance is in the timescale your assumption operates in and not seeing the interdependence between man, nature, and unknowns. This is incredibly arrogant. I'm not using the word in the pejorative sense (I'm not calling you names), but in one that's better described as hubris.

Awful lot of assumptions you're making there. One might even say it's arrogant and hubristic.

fair. I may have been intending to reply to another comment, on second read. Sorry about singling yours out.
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