Th4tGuyII

I wouldn’t know anything about that - but it certainly sounds interesting, including what @cynar said

I’d think of it like this…

• The universe is ~13 billion years old. However for the first few billion years, the universe was a wildly dangerous place to live. A sea of Hydrogen generating Supermassive stars, exploding within just 100,000s/millions of years, and generating many of the heavy elements that exist today. Even if a planet could form in these conditions, chances are it would’ve been annihilated before life could develop.

• I don’t know exactly when the universe started to “stabilise”, but let’s say there is ~10 billion years of time that a planet like Earth could’ve formed.

• The Earth is ~4.5 billion years old.

• Single-celled life arose ~3-4 billion years ago.

• Complex multi-cellular life arose only ~500 million years ago during the Cambrian Explosion - so much needs to happen for complex life to arise that it could take a long time even in the best case scenario.

• Humans arose only ~100,000 years ago… albeit had the dinosaurs not been around for so long, we could have come about maybe 10s of millions of years earlier.

• From there basically everything comes down to how long it takes for a race to figure out farming, adopt a sedentary lifestyle that allows development of non-survival related disciplines, and to industrialise.
  In the case of humans, the oldest cultures are around 10,000 years old, and we industrialised only a couple hundred years ago.

If we make the assumption that we’re not exceptional amongst any intelligent lifeforms, then it would make sense to assume that it takes roughly 3-5 billion years for a race to reach where we are now.

That means we could be late to the party, and everyone else has already wiped themselves out, but it’s just as likely we’re right in the thick of it but just too far away from anyone else in our cohort to see anything, and vice versa.

It’s basically just the Fermi Paradox - and the only way we get an answer is when the void answers back.

Exactly. Information is a luxury - you could go your entire life without learning even a shred of information, but you’d still need to eat.

Firstly, capitalism isn’t going to just “poof” away just because there are more resources available. The rich will just hold them back to create artificial scarcity - like is done with diamonds.

Secondly, even discounting that, there are plenty of resources that are genuinely scarce no matter how much money you have to throw at the problem.

But if you’re referring to just the scarcity of information - then you’re still not quite right as not all that information out there is good information - a lot of it is misinformation (i.e. propaganda, etc.)…

And even that discounts the fact that for many people, they don’t have the tools/capability to access the information, or simply can’t access the information full stop (I.e. due to censorship, etc.).

Yeah - that was my worry.

Unification of standards only works if everyone agrees to use it and only it (i.e. mobile phones and USB C), otherwise you’re just adding another one to the pile.

If you want to see your “Karma” Kbin natively has a reputation feature - Having said that I disagree with the idea entirely.

It isn’t a good way to gauge trustworthiness as it can easily be farmed by posting large amounts of mediocre content that people are likely just to upvote passively.

It’s far better to just look at someone’s post history to see the substance of their contributions to the site - obviously that takes more work to check, but it’s also way harder to fake.

True…

But even on a more metaphorical level, every single thing that has or will happen in this universe, down to even the smallest quantum fluctuations could be encapsulated into IF statements as long as you had enough of them.

There’s not a single thing in this universe that cannot be accomplished with enough IF statements… as long as you’ve got infinite time to wait

Who would’ve thought a sector with gold flowing through its hands would be so stingy when it comes to updating their backend that they’d end up relying on a dying language, and call upon AI to update it for them rather than just paying a competent team to create and rigorously test a new backend in a modern language

I think that ironically plays into their point, because they didn’t even pay attention when making this post about people not paying attention

This sounds about right, but OP could really have done with double checking their post before submitting.

Reads like a drunk text.

While there may very well be a conspiracist element to this, I suspect that it’s simpler than that. For a lot of people music is meant to be their escape from reality, so having reality interject ruins the experience - as such any songs that try to capture that simply don’t get as popular, so end up in alternative genres

For a second there I thought you meant feeling as in emotional and was really confused haha

I just imaged the membrane hugging my brain like “don’t worry, I got you, focus on keeping this idiot alive”

The phrase of something being a lifetime ago exists for a reason.

You’re changing mentally and physically all the time, especially when you’re younger and going through so many phases of growing up.

String enough of those changes together and at some point you will effectively become a new person, only connected to the previous iterations by memories that you share.

The death of one interation and the beginning of another is bound to be a blurry mess, but you can see it clearly over a large enough span of time.

The same is true with the environment around you, and even the wider world. It goes through iterations just the same as we do because nothing stands still, even if we want it to.

I would discourage telling everyone to go to Lemmy.World as not only could it overload the server, the centralisation problem starts all over again.

The vast majority of instances are federated to all the big ones anyway, so I would recommend looking around to see if there are any instances that better fit your wants before going straight Lemmy.World. You won’t lose anything from it, and you’ll be supporting the wider fediverse.