Thales@sh.itjust.works to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoIt's been downhill since 2020sh.itjust.worksexternal-linkmessage-square216linkfedilinkarrow-up1889arrow-down144file-text
arrow-up1845arrow-down1external-linkIt's been downhill since 2020sh.itjust.worksThales@sh.itjust.works to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square216linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squarearchitectlinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down1·10 months agoIt’s not an alternate timeline. It’s the most profitable one.
minus-squareMystikIncarnate@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·10 months agoWe’re really generating value for those shareholders aren’t we?
minus-squarearchitectlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 months agoAbsolutely. And as you can see, fiction scales better than truth.
minus-squareWorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up3·10 months agoAnd the profitable timeline is the only possible one. This is the great filter.
minus-squarehumorlessrepost@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 months agoThis would imply that capitalism is inevitable in species with potentially spacefaring intelligence. I refuse to accept that for my own sanity’s sake.
minus-squareAshelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoPerhaps it’s a contextual Great Filter only for instances of intelligent life in which capitalistic modes of production win out.
minus-squarehumorlessrepost@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoThen it doesn’t serve its purpose of solving the Fermi paradox.
minus-squareAshelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoWhat? Any and all filters an intelligent species could encounter need to be factored in statistically, even if not all of those filters will 100% be encountered
It’s not an alternate timeline.
It’s the most profitable one.
We’re really generating value for those shareholders aren’t we?
Absolutely.
And as you can see, fiction scales better than truth.
And the profitable timeline is the only possible one. This is the great filter.
This would imply that capitalism is inevitable in species with potentially spacefaring intelligence. I refuse to accept that for my own sanity’s sake.
Perhaps it’s a contextual Great Filter only for instances of intelligent life in which capitalistic modes of production win out.
Then it doesn’t serve its purpose of solving the Fermi paradox.
What? Any and all filters an intelligent species could encounter need to be factored in statistically, even if not all of those filters will 100% be encountered