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by baxtr6 hours ago |
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upvoteby austinjp4 hours ago|
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Russell's chicken (or turkey) would like a word.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey_illusion

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upvoteby baxtr4 hours ago|
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I love that you brought this up.

Chickens are killed ALL the time. It’s a recurring mass event. If you were a smart chicken you could see that pattern and put it into a formula.

In contrast, the end of Humanity would be a singular event. It’s even in the name…

And that is fiction / speculation in comparison. It’s not backed by any data. Human survival over 300,000 years by contrast is.

I mean it’s fine to dream things up, but let’s be fair and call it what it is.

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upvoteby aidenn031 minutes ago|
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One thing I've wondered about is:

Suppose a civilization (but not species) ending event happens.

The industrial revolution was fueled (literally) by easy-to-extract fossil fuels. Do we have enough of those left to repeat the revolution and bootstrap exploitation of other energy sources?

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upvoteby throwerxyz2 hours ago|
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What, you weren't alive when the last mass extinction event occurred? Why didn't you communicate or at least write the last handful down or something? Aren't you smarter than a chicken?

It's funny that you think we know what happened to humans anymore than a chicken knows what happened to chickens.

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upvoteby computomatic3 hours ago|
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On the other hand, species go extinct with increasing regularity.
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upvoteby Invictus03 hours ago|
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298,000 of those years didn't have toilet paper. It was utterly impossible for a single person to "end humanity" even 200 years ago; now, the president can do it in minutes by launching a salvo of nukes. Comparing the present moment to the hunter/gatherer days is preposterous.
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upvoteby baxtr3 hours ago|
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It’s absurd and not scientific to claim that "a salvo of nukes" will kill humanity.

We don’t know how this will play out. It never happened before. Same with the chicken above.

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upvoteby deltaburnt2 hours ago|
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For pretty much every single person you or I personally know, that would be the equivalent of the end of humanity.

Let’s not nitpick here. Worldwide human suffering and tragedy is equivalent to the end of humanity for most.

We can sit here and armchair while in the most prosperous, comfortable era of human history. But we also have to recognize that this era is a blip of time in history. That is a lot of data showing humanity surviving sure. But it’s also a very small amount of data showing any kind of life most would want to live in.

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upvoteby snoman5 hours ago|
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It only has to be right once. Humanity won’t end until it does.
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upvoteby nicce5 hours ago|
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Humanity may end if someone else goes to the top of food chain.
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