I suspect this is a honeypot for capturing psychopaths.
Centre for Applied Eschatology
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#52I suspect this is a honeypot for capturing psychopaths.
And it's working: 46 comments on HN already.
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#53As with most technical challenges, scale is always an issue. Depopulating a city is relatively easy and achievable with conventional bombs. A small country would only be moderately more difficult with nuclear weapons. After this, things get much harder. Sure, enough nukes could finish off the human race, but that's out of the price range for most shoppers in this market. In the long term, climate change might do it,…
Reminds me very strongly of the opening lines of https://qntm.org/destroy
That's fantastic! Clearly I'm not the only one that has listened to countless fictional villains claim they want to destroy the world while I think "No, you just want to kill people."
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#54I suspect this is a honeypot for capturing psychopaths.
The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement is the ethical alternative. But you are properly wrong anyhow. Psychopaths don't want to end the world. It's more likely to be people that can't handle their empathy in the face of being.
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#55don't know why, but i was thinking this was 'scatology'. My brain is in the gutter.
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#56I upvoted this, along with the story below it.
"The Next Decade Could Be Even Worse (theatlantic.com)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25081438
When life gives you lemons... sometimes the only solution is to trade sides and play for Team Lemon.
Are you doing your part to change could into will?
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#57Can't take it serious because it didn't list the primary cause of our extinction in my eyes. Its going to be the antibiotic winter, antibiotic resistant bacteria. I'm very sure some people who got ventilated for covid actually died to this, given its prevalence its a virtual certainty.
There are no new antibiotics coming and the half life on new ones before resistance is developed is less than 5 years. They want you to focus on the "virus," we know how to deal with viruses, they aren't the issue for long periods of time, only decades. Bacteria will cause extinction.
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#58They want to Immanentize the Eschaton? Luckily we fnord know how to deal with that. Hail Eris.
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#59Can't take it serious because it didn't list the primary cause of our extinction in my eyes. Its going to be the antibiotic winter, antibiotic resistant bacteria. I'm very sure some people who got ventilated for covid actually died to this, given its prevalence its a virtual certainty. There are no new antibiotics coming and the half life on new ones before resistance is developed is less than 5 years. They want you…
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#60Can't take it serious because it didn't list the primary cause of our extinction in my eyes. Its going to be the antibiotic winter, antibiotic resistant bacteria. I'm very sure some people who got ventilated for covid actually died to this, given its prevalence its a virtual certainty. There are no new antibiotics coming and the half life on new ones before resistance is developed is less than 5 years. They want you…
> Its going to be the antibiotic winter, antibiotic resistant bacteria.... Bacteria will cause extinction.
They didn't cause humanity to go extinct before antibiotics were invented. If they all lost effectiveness, we'd just return to the status quo ante (not extinct, with more sickness).