Red Mosquito

spike wrote:maybe the wind took someone's face mask

The concept originates in Robin Hanson's argument that the failure to find any extraterrestrial civilizations in the observable universe implies the possibility something is wrong with one or more of the arguments from various scientific disciplines that the appearance of advanced intelligent life is probable; this observation is conceptualized in terms of a "Great Filter" which acts to reduce the great number of sites where intelligent life might arise to the tiny number of intelligent species with advanced civilizations actually observed (currently just one: human).[3] This probability threshold, which could lie behind us (in our past) or in front of us (in our future), might work as a barrier to the evolution of intelligent life, or as a high probability of self-destruction.[1][4] The main counter-intuitive conclusion of this observation is that the easier it was for life to evolve to our stage, the bleaker our future chances probably are.

Orpheus wrote:The Great Filter is a fascinating theory on why we haven't met intelligent life yet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter

The concept originates in Robin Hanson's argument that the failure to find any extraterrestrial civilizations in the observable universe implies the possibility something is wrong with one or more of the arguments from various scientific disciplines that the appearance of advanced intelligent life is probable; this observation is conceptualized in terms of a "Great Filter" which acts to reduce the great number of sites where intelligent life might arise to the tiny number of intelligent species with advanced civilizations actually observed (currently just one: human).[3] This probability threshold, which could lie behind us (in our past) or in front of us (in our future), might work as a barrier to the evolution of intelligent life, or as a high probability of self-destruction.[1][4] The main counter-intuitive conclusion of this observation is that the easier it was for life to evolve to our stage, the bleaker our future chances probably are.

elliseamos wrote:I'd never heard of it.

Thanks, Orpheus.

BurtReynolds wrote:It probably fits into Great Filter theory, but there's a theory that we don't encounter intelligent life because it eventually creates a real life "Matrix" for itself and disappears into virtual worlds rather than trying to explore space.

But life probably burns itself out or disappears up its own ass.

Orpheus wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:It probably fits into Great Filter theory, but there's a theory that we don't encounter intelligent life because it eventually creates a real life "Matrix" for itself and disappears into virtual worlds rather than trying to explore space.

But life probably burns itself out or disappears up its own ass.

Absolutely fits into the theory. "We have VR and y'all just kinda suck ass"

elliseamos wrote:

Orpheus wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:It probably fits into Great Filter theory, but there's a theory that we don't encounter intelligent life because it eventually creates a real life "Matrix" for itself and disappears into virtual worlds rather than trying to explore space.

But life probably burns itself out or disappears up its own ass.

Absolutely fits into the theory. "We have VR and y'all just kinda suck ass"

I mean when I think about this theory now I think of how truly close we may already be to completely killing ourselves off (having already dodged it just a couple times to this point)

verb_to_trust wrote:

elliseamos wrote:

Orpheus wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:It probably fits into Great Filter theory, but there's a theory that we don't encounter intelligent life because it eventually creates a real life "Matrix" for itself and disappears into virtual worlds rather than trying to explore space.

But life probably burns itself out or disappears up its own ass.

Absolutely fits into the theory. "We have VR and y'all just kinda suck ass"

I mean when I think about this theory now I think of how truly close we may already be to completely killing ourselves off (having already dodged it just a couple times to this point)

It's funny how people buy into stuff like this while also being totally convinced they can stop cold a highly transmissible worldwide virus with a spit covered piece of cloth on their face.

Peeps wrote:I think given how expansive we know the universe to be it would be foolish to think we were alone

elliseamos wrote:

Orpheus wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:It probably fits into Great Filter theory, but there's a theory that we don't encounter intelligent life because it eventually creates a real life "Matrix" for itself and disappears into virtual worlds rather than trying to explore space.

But life probably burns itself out or disappears up its own ass.

Absolutely fits into the theory. "We have VR and y'all just kinda suck ass"

I mean when I think about this theory now I think of how truly close we may already be to completely killing ourselves off (having already dodged it just a couple times to this point)

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blueviper wrote:

verb_to_trust wrote:

elliseamos wrote:

Orpheus wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:It probably fits into Great Filter theory, but there's a theory that we don't encounter intelligent life because it eventually creates a real life "Matrix" for itself and disappears into virtual worlds rather than trying to explore space.

But life probably burns itself out or disappears up its own ass.

Absolutely fits into the theory. "We have VR and y'all just kinda suck ass"

I mean when I think about this theory now I think of how truly close we may already be to completely killing ourselves off (having already dodged it just a couple times to this point)

It's funny how people buy into stuff like this while also being totally convinced they can stop cold a highly transmissible worldwide virus with a spit covered piece of cloth on their face.

If masks weren’t effective wouldn’t we have more doctors and nurses being taken out of commission?

A CDC report shows that a study of 13 sites over a three month period showed that out of all the COVID hospitalizations at these sites, 6% were health care professionals. That seems pretty low.