Music Banter - The Wow I Can't Believe That News Story Thread

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Exo	08-04-2019 10:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 2070299)

It could go either way. I'd hit up an observatory or something if it had a hype campaign before it hit.

Isn't there one that's REALLY far out there in the middle of nowhere? I'd go there. F*ck it, I might go to Antarctica.

Frownland

08-04-2019 10:48 AM

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Originally Posted by jwb (Post 2070300)

you sound like a potential shooter

News flash!

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Originally Posted by Exo (Post 2070301)

Isn't there one that's REALLY far out there in the middle of nowhere? I'd go there. F*ck it, I might go to Antarctica.

SDSU has a nice one.

jwb	08-04-2019 11:37 AM

I don't believe he really means it though.

jwb	08-04-2019 11:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Exo (Post 2070295)

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

08-04-2019 12:01 PM

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	08-04-2019 12:10 PM

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Originally Posted by jwb (Post 2070276)

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	08-04-2019 12:13 PM

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Originally Posted by jwb (Post 2070311)

They're also turning the frogs gay.

OccultHawk

08-04-2019 12:25 PM

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Originally Posted by jwb (Post 2070311)

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	08-04-2019 12:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 2070312)

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.