You’re right, it’s worse than being sleepy, it’s dramatic dementia and cognitive decline.
You’re right, it’s worse than being sleepy, it’s dramatic dementia and cognitive decline.
Wow great thoughts, I’ll learn from this here for sure.
Ha, well, I live in China…. so I’ll check and see but otherwise I’ll just keep on camping :-)
Thank you I’ll check it out today.
Wow thank you for the info, very insightful. I’ve always been interested in Burning Man but live to far away!
Ha true, good point. Buddhism can be a little atheistic, I believe, the Buddha isn’t an actual deity for most adherents. (I think…?)
Ah gotta get Festivus on the calendar! I like the rules idea too, maybe a few super random things just to be quirky.
I don’t think we need more religion, no. I think people would like options with less archaic ideas, and that they would like the community and activity that religious groups can offer if the strange belief requirements can be left behind.
I’d make it atheistic, include meditation and be proactive with volunteering or useful projects.
There’s a lot to love here, a lot to love.
? If Biden runs he’s going to lose, and Trump will win.
Huh, today I learned, and that’s crazy.
Did you watch it? I’m 100% for the Democrats but Biden is incoherent, he is not up for the job. From what I saw he isn’t up to doing the job through November. He needs to step down immediately. If he doesn’t Trump is going to win.
Whatever that dish is I bet it’s damn good. I miss food like that.
Is it not an issue that duct tape can be pretty flammable?
I agree, I don’t think they’d wait until the last possible moment when the civilization becomes super powerful or builds the mega weapon. I just mention it along the range of development to highlight the why.
I think they might let weaker civilizations keep going, though, just out of hope they wouldn’t be too mean. Also, zapping other civilizations when you don’t need to exposes yourself and your own aggression.
About the shift to VR /computer substrate worlds that wouldn’t have huge footprints, I agree that not all would do that, and it only takes one to go the big building and footprint route and it’s weird we don’t see it.
My guess then would be that maybe they do build big, but they just conceal well…? You get good enough tech at some point you can choose to be hard to see.
Yep exactly. Who knows how murderous other civs might be, maybe they’re nice but maybe not.
I think others wouldn’t bother with us until we started demonstrating likelihood of using dangerous tech or crazy exponential expansion.
I don’t remember well, but I think civilizations stationed their defensive or offensive tech away from their own civilizations, just dispersed around.
I think its explanation for why no one or anything has colonized the galaxy though is that if anyone shows signs of becoming that strong, they get zapped. Nobody wants to see a neighbor rise up into a behemoth, you get that bold you’re a threat.
My real preferred theory of why we don’t see other civilizations though is that I think they choose more inward, VR, computer-based evolution that doesn’t result in big mega structures.
That’s wise, good ideas!