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Chicken Butt posted:Too bad there wasn’t a French person at that table with Fermi and the gang, they would have immediately proposed ennui as a solution to the paradox. I'm not imagining an alien with a beret in a striped shirt, looking out of his spaceship window, smoking, slowly blinking and then sighing deeply.
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In addition: an organism that could live forever would over time be less adapted to its environment and lose competition to organisms that are better-adapted. I mean, imagine boomers living forever and doddering through each new wave of technology until they accidentally set themselves on fire or fry their brains.
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ate poo poo on live tv posted:Not yet and even though it looks pretty dire right now, it's not guaranteed that we will be extinct even after triggering the 6th. as an aside, I wonder how future archaeologists will classify quotes like this while poking through the digital rubble of Late Stage Capitalist Apocalypse ruins: "hmm yes, this is an interesting opinion by ate poo poo on live tv, clearly the name of a great mind of their time that suggests refinement and intellectual discipline."
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Speleothing posted:There are at least five modern wild animal groups that have a sort of intelligence and society. How social are cephalopods?
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Another thing that occurred to me: isn't a barrier to, say, cetacean tool development that they could never master fire? Seems like a pretty big requirement to develop advanced tools.
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