The Wow I Can't Believe That News Story Thread

[jwb]

I don't believe he really means it though.

[jwb]

Originally Posted by Exo

That's the source of the issue right there. There's too many goddamn people on this planet and a lot of then are idiots. This rock needs a plague or a meteor strike. I'm being totally serious. If news broke that large asteroid was on its way to wipe out 80% of humanity, I'd sell all my sh*t, start seeing the people and things I wanna see before I'm obliterated, give nature one last pat on the back saying "so long and sorry for all the wars and idiots" and kindly walk into the woods and eat a bullet sandwich.

I understand the frustration but you remind me of the Jehovahs that come up to me talking about end times. I'm sure it probably felt like end times a century ago during the world wars. I'm sure the bubonic plague felt like end times. The **** is nothing new.

Really all these issues only really exist in most of our lives as abstractions - things viewed with horror from a safe distance. In a way we're suffering from information overload.

[Frownland]

Idk, extreme weather patterns have a pretty direct impact on almost everyone's lives. Human extinction is far away though. Even if we obliterate each other, there's always going to be some survivors. We're basically roaches.

[WWWP]

Originally Posted by jwb

I don't think repealing the 2nd amendment is going to be politically feasible anytime soon. And if they somehow forced it down the pipeline I'm afraid we could have a civil war.

you should post your review in my podcast thread since i never got around to doing so

Podcasts

[Exo]

Originally Posted by jwb

I understand the frustration but you remind me of the Jehovahs that come up to me talking about end times. I'm sure it probably felt like end times a century ago during the world wars. I'm sure the bubonic plague felt like end times. The **** is nothing new.

Really all these issues only really exist in most of our lives as abstractions - things viewed with horror from a safe distance. In a way we're suffering from information overload.

They're also turning the frogs gay.

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by jwb

I understand the frustration but you remind me of the Jehovahs that come up to me talking about end times. I'm sure it probably felt like end times a century ago during the world wars. I'm sure the bubonic plague felt like end times. The **** is nothing new.

Really all these issues only really exist in most of our lives as abstractions - things viewed with horror from a safe distance. In a way we're suffering from information overload.

No one will ever get to gloat about successfully predicting the end but as long as there’s two people left the one with a grip on the most obvious will still say it ain’t over yet.

Joke: A man who jumped from an airplane refused to accept he was going to hit the ground until it was ten feet away. At that point he decided not to pull the rip cord because he figured he could jump from there.

[jwb]

Originally Posted by Frownland

Idk, extreme weather patterns have a pretty direct impact on almost everyone's lives. Human extinction is far away though. Even if we obliterate each other, there's always going to be some survivors. We're basically roaches.

well yeah I'm concerned about climate change as potential dead end for us

It's not like I rule out human Extinction. Like I said before I believe if we ever engineer true AGI it will likely render us obsolete and we might go extinct from that as well.

Ant said they won't want to compete with us but I tend to think Intelligence probably means autonomy which means they will have their own interests in what to do with the reasources around them and thus are more likely to possibly render us extinct not necessarily intentionally but rather as a byproduct of their own dominance over the environment which we used to control. The same way we drive species extinct today.

[Exo]

That's a great joke.

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by Frownland

Idk, extreme weather patterns have a pretty direct impact on almost everyone's lives. Human extinction is far away though. Even if we obliterate each other, there's always going to be some survivors. We're basically roaches.

Human population bottlenecked to under 20,000 under 100,000 years ago.

[jwb]

yeah I wouldn't say like roaches lol

We're too high maintenance