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What if the great filter of humanity is to overcome it's own nature that made it the dominant species of the planet and what if that is the universal great filter that makes the cosmos silent (self.showerthoughts)
submitted 6 months ago by whaleross to c/showerthoughts
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[–] Cryophilia 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So like, we all just give up as a species? Sounds unlikely.

[–] AA5B 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Think of Star Trek as an analogy.

  • The Archers, Pikes, Kirks succeeded by being bold and daring, confronting dangers, fighting to survive. The Siskos and Burnhams instigated war on a galactic scale. They were violent, reactive, risk takers
  • a couple centuries later, the Picards confronted greater obstacles but with reason, compassion, self-sacrifice. If Kirk had faced Q, that would have been the great filter, but Picard succeeded as a human evolved past his violent reactions
[–] Cryophilia 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I've never watched Star Trek.

I know, heresy for lemmy.

I also use windows and not linux (though I plan on switching when I get time to learn linux)

[–] AA5B 1 points 6 months ago

Wow, it’s like talking to an Alien ….. while I do occasionally use Windows, my main laptop is OSX, my home servers are Raspian and Suse and at work I use Red Hat, Debian and whatever Amazon Linux is, and my media consumption is Linux or iOS