That’s a yes from me. But I wanna hear what others think.

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[–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Funny of you to think humans will even be around in 100 years, let alone one million.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago*

    By "we" I'm really thinking of all earth based life/intelligence, rather than just humans as they exist today. But yeah if humans self-delete in a way that doesn't involve being replaced by something similarly capable (for instance a planet of the apes type scenario), then it's probably going to be a lot longer than a million years before we recover, which could start to erode our cosmic timescale head start over life elsewhere in the universe. So we really shouldn't do that just yet.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    Honestly given that we are a very intelligent generalist, I think it would be very hard to completely eradicate humans.

    But I would agree that we could have a crazy bad collapse and have to start way over due to a much smaller habitable part of the planet and maybe that habitable area shifts around making us nomadic or something. That would probably make it a lot harder to redevelop tech. Source: https://www.open.edu/openlearn/nature-environment/environment-understanding-atmospheric-and-ocean-flows/content-section-4

    Figure 18 shows that such a warm, stable period has been very unusual in the last 800 000 years, yet it is only during the Holocene that agriculture and the civilisations that rely on it have developed

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