Someone suggested, I think it was at Reddit, the reason no intelligent life has ( allegedly) detected is due to the impossibility for such creatures to want to continue surviving ( once sufficient understanding of Reality is acquired). Voluntary extinction is the inevitable result.
OnlyMercy
No More
- Oct 23, 2018
- 190
Voluntary extinction is the only reasonable way to end human suffering in the long run. Unfortunately we'll never see it come to pass as long as ideas to "be fruitful and multiply" exist.
Luchs
kristallene Bergluft über verfallener Gruft
- Aug 20, 2019
- 528
I hope this is true. Even if human society sucks massive d*ck, and not a nice one, but a stinking old, flabby one, our universe doesn't. It is such a beautiful, giant, awinspiring place to exist in that it would be a pitty if everything just ended itself. I hope we can turn han society to the better and create a world everyone wants to live in.
Pony
Sad transgirl
- Sep 2, 2019
- 98
The problem with that hypothesis is that every individual in every intelligent species would need to come to that conclusion to prevent us from seeing aliens
It's a mere hypothesis and an untestable one at that.
We haven't yet seen a species evolved enough to be able to make the decision go extinct voluntarily so I wouldn't call it inevitable.
I do agree with the thesis of voluntary extinction being the sole way of permanently eradicating suffering but quite frankly I don't see it happening as it would require a complete overhaul of our moral values and a total victory of reason over instinct.
Funnily enough one must of necessity be an optimist in order to believe in the possibility of voluntary human extinction which ironically rests on a deep, unrelenting pessimism.
We haven't yet seen a species evolved enough to be able to make the decision go extinct voluntarily so I wouldn't call it inevitable.
I do agree with the thesis of voluntary extinction being the sole way of permanently eradicating suffering but quite frankly I don't see it happening as it would require a complete overhaul of our moral values and a total victory of reason over instinct.
Funnily enough one must of necessity be an optimist in order to believe in the possibility of voluntary human extinction which ironically rests on a deep, unrelenting pessimism.
Any life is in danger of involuntary extinction if it is too intelligent. Once a species starts using tools it can manipulate it's environment. The dangerous conclusion of that process is environmental collapse due to over population and all that comes with it. Unfortunately, it may be that any intelligent species that has the potential to achieve spaceflight may be likely to wipe itself out before it goes any distance.
Also, we haven't seen aliens yet cus they are so unbelievably far away! You thought it was a long way down the road to the chemist. Space is big!
Also, we haven't seen aliens yet cus they are so unbelievably far away! You thought it was a long way down the road to the chemist. Space is big!
