progression of technologies (almost a satire)

coderman coderman at gmail.com
Wed Jun 24 23:23:09 PDT 2015


On 6/24/15, hellekin <hellekin at dyne.org> wrote:
> ...  What can be done is not
> necessarily to be done--and the fact no H-bomb has been detonated for a
> while demonstrates technology can be tamed by human will, if only by a
> safe bit.  Actually that seems to be the only path left, as technology
> is being imposed on a global scale without restraint, like free trade or
> private property before it.


trending exponential technology is the Great Filter.[0]
 earth humans must get house in order! [1]
  :P


best regards,


0. "... With no evidence of intelligent life other than ourselves, it
appears that the process of starting with a star and ending with
"advanced explosive lasting life" must be unlikely. This implies that
at least one step in this process must be improbable."
  - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter

1. white, privileged, young and middle aged males the outlier, in
modern harm terms.  significantly over represented in column "run
amok". first to feel the downward mobility, and most to grow unhinged
agro over it?



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