End of the World?

[Raa]

...Sweet. Great minds think alike. :]

[Parallo]

Only one way to test it. Shoot yourself in the face.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-Does-Quantum-Suicide-Work-77343.shtml

[Raa]

In an alternate reality, I probably did. 

[Entevir]

Maybe you have. Stared down the barrel of a gun lately perhaps ?

[zanzibar]

No, that sort of perspective just means that one does not have to take any chances or be responsible for one's own life choices. Most philosophies, and all religions are nonsense. Stick to what you can prove, demonstrate, or measure objectively. The rest is manipulation of many by a few, for the benefit of the few.

If we limited ourselves to what we objectively know, I think we would be left with very little.  We know things through experience.  But our way of experiencing the world is inherently flawed, since we experience the world by our own consciousness, and consciousness is not a perfect or bias-free instrument.

[Entevir]

Yep. Science is the most trial and error thing we have. After those damned rubric cubes.

Seriously though in this case the many get the idea that they are safe to try new possible dangerous things. How does that make sense to make people do ? Besides me knowing that in some parallel universe an exact copy of me(or vice versa) lives on isn't really helping with the dead problem. And what are the odds that out of an unfathomably insanely large number of universes i just so happen to be the one that flukes out through everything.
In the end this theory tells us "Don't worry somehow, somewhere you didn't die. Too bad it wasn't here eh ?".

[zanzibar]

If that button exists. And if Eliseth or I are near that button, and we press it and everything ends. Then that is how it was supposed to happen.

That's what scares me.  Not that such buttons exist, or will exist, but there are people who will actually press them.

Think about how scary technology is right now.  Think of what it might look like in 5,000 years.

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Humanity is no different than the rest of nature. Existence and life are violent things. Life feeds on death. Nature is life. Nature is death. We are just better at both. You don't cure the problem by eliminating life.

Can I disagree with this?  I think that humans are very different creatures.  We create culture and history.  We aren't simply driven by instinct.  We have the ability of choice, and to weigh options.  I think those things set us apart.

[Socius Rockus]

Humanity is no different than the rest of nature. Existence and life are violent things. Life feeds on death. Nature is life. Nature is death. We are just better at both. You don't cure the problem by eliminating life.

Can I disagree with this?  I think that humans are very different creatures.  We create culture and history.  We aren't simply driven by instinct.  We have the ability of choice, and to weigh options.  I think those things set us apart.

Culture and history are nothing to anything else but humans (at least on earth ). It's like when a monkey smells it's finger that he just farted on: total crap,  or as significant as a fish in water. they're just features we humans have, but we can't lay eggs.

[zanzibar]

The end of the world will be when the A.Z.T. factory stops making Arizona Iced Green Tea. I am so addicted. 

Oh, I love that stuff, but I can't drink it because of the corn syrup.

[Entevir]

Think about how scary technology is right now.  Think of what it might look like in 5,000 years.

I think in 5,000 year's we will have created the perpetual engine and be living in a society which has all it needs because we will have the technology to synthesize anything we want. But that does not matter to me at present because I've got at most 70 year's left to live. So i leave the problems so far off to people that are some 40 generation's down.

The end of the world will be when the A.Z.T. factory stops making Arizona Iced Green Tea. I am so addicted. 

Oh, I love that stuff, but I can't drink it because of the corn syrup.

I just drink the blood of innocents. I'm Dick Chaney.

[Parallo]

Anyone read Sydney Pollard's Idea of Progress?

[zapdoscom]

but global warming is getting worse because of us. Thats why we reuse reduse and recycle


that might stop it yaaaa

[Parallo]

Thin ice there. You don't want to go into such a controversial topic here.

[Eathon]

I'd groan on cue here, but I'd risk sounding repetitive. 

[Parallo]

Thank you, thank you, I'm here all week.