Humanity is worthless

[busker]

Humans are inefficient machines that spend 90% of their time on wasteful activities like sleep and gastronomy
Why do they need taste buds? Edible and not being poison should be enough. That’s also why the Germans are successful. They fucked around with music in the 1700s and that was it. Off to the mines and the camps after that.

Think of all of the nonsensical time wasting baggage.
Family fun day Sunday excursions. The whole dating game. Funerals. Christmas dinner. Slaughtering goats on Eid. Wood carving. Cleaning. Sleeping pills and people making them.

If instead all of this energy was channeled towards space exploration we’d have been setting up heated bungalows on Titan by now. Reading Shakespeare.

[wasellajam]

Humans are inefficient machines that spend 90% of their time on wasteful activities like sleep and gastronomy
Why do they need taste buds? Edible and not being poison should be enough. That’s also why the Germans are successful. They fucked around with music in the 1700s and that was it. Off to the mines and the camps after that.

Think of all of the nonsensical time wasting baggage.
Family fun day Sunday excursions. The whole dating game. Funerals. Christmas dinner. Slaughtering goats on Eid. Wood carving. Cleaning. Sleeping pills and people making them.

If instead all of this energy was channeled towards space exploration we’d have been setting up heated bungalows on Titan by now. Reading Shakespeare.

I had hoped that humans would find someplace other than earth to live before they made this planet uninhabitable but if it's to be I don't believe it will be in my lifetime. I think if it comes it will be not from plugging away at it but from a giant leap of genius.

For the non-geniuses among us a life of doing as little harm as possible is just fine. There are a lot of us, I won't judge your drive and don't expect you to judge my lack of it.

Rant away and get it done.

[milo]

Humans are inefficient machines that spend 90% of their time on wasteful activities like sleep and gastronomy
Why do they need taste buds? Edible and not being poison should be enough. That’s also why the Germans are successful. They fucked around with music in the 1700s and that was it. Off to the mines and the camps after that.

Think of all of the nonsensical time wasting baggage.
Family fun day Sunday excursions. The whole dating game. Funerals. Christmas dinner. Slaughtering goats on Eid. Wood carving. Cleaning. Sleeping pills and people making them.

If instead all of this energy was channeled towards space exploration we’d have been setting up heated bungalows on Titan by now. Reading Shakespeare.

Probably correct but a few thousand years of philosophy addresses this over and over anyway -on both sides.  Yah - if the whole point of humans is space travel we should really all buckle down and start doing that or eliminate the 99% who aren't participating so at least they aren't wasting our precious resources.

Probably most humans, philosophers, scholars and anyone of worth just doesn't agree taht that is the point of humans

hrug:

[busker]

Humans are inefficient machines that spend 90% of their time on wasteful activities like sleep and gastronomy
Why do they need taste buds? Edible and not being poison should be enough. That’s also why the Germans are successful. They fucked around with music in the 1700s and that was it. Off to the mines and the camps after that.

Think of all of the nonsensical time wasting baggage.
Family fun day Sunday excursions. The whole dating game. Funerals. Christmas dinner. Slaughtering goats on Eid. Wood carving. Cleaning. Sleeping pills and people making them.

If instead all of this energy was channeled towards space exploration we’d have been setting up heated bungalows on Titan by now. Reading Shakespeare.

Probably correct but a few thousand years of philosophy addresses this over and over anyway -on both sides.  Yah - if the whole point of humans is space travel we should really all buckle down and start doing that or eliminate the 99% who aren't participating so at least they aren't wasting our precious resources.

Probably most humans, philosophers, scholars and anyone of worth just doesn't agree taht that is the point of humans

hrug:

To your first point: I’m not sure what you mean by a few thousand years etc. I’m not talking about the generalism that the universe is meaningless etc etc 

The philosophers of old - heck, even not that long ago - had no clue how ridiculously inefficient photosynthesis was. And nobody dreamt that you’d actually have thinking machines. It was all right to write funny stories about it, but not much more

I will stop at this point, because it looks like you’re too world weary to be stirred up by anything at all. Other than bad poetry. So I say this: Rupi Kaur is better than Shakespeare because only 5,000 people read Shakespeare out of choice today.

[milo]

Humans are inefficient machines that spend 90% of their time on wasteful activities like sleep and gastronomy
Why do they need taste buds? Edible and not being poison should be enough. That’s also why the Germans are successful. They fucked around with music in the 1700s and that was it. Off to the mines and the camps after that.

Think of all of the nonsensical time wasting baggage.
Family fun day Sunday excursions. The whole dating game. Funerals. Christmas dinner. Slaughtering goats on Eid. Wood carving. Cleaning. Sleeping pills and people making them.

If instead all of this energy was channeled towards space exploration we’d have been setting up heated bungalows on Titan by now. Reading Shakespeare.

Probably correct but a few thousand years of philosophy addresses this over and over anyway -on both sides.  Yah - if the whole point of humans is space travel we should really all buckle down and start doing that or eliminate the 99% who aren't participating so at least they aren't wasting our precious resources.

Probably most humans, philosophers, scholars and anyone of worth just doesn't agree taht that is the point of humans

hrug:

To your first point: I’m not sure what you mean by a few thousand years etc. I’m not talking about the generalism that the universe is meaningless etc etc 

The philosophers of old - heck, even not that long ago - had no clue how ridiculously inefficient photosynthesis was. And nobody dreamt that you’d actually have thinking machines. It was all right to write funny stories about it, but not much more

I will stop at this point, because it looks like you’re too world weary to be stirred up by anything at all. Other than bad poetry. So I say this: Rupi Kaur is better than Shakespeare because only 5,000 people read Shakespeare out of choice today.

People have known (or speculated) of thinking machines for centuries.

I am most likely less worl-weary than you just not as enchanted by juvenile cliche as you seem to be.

[CRNDLSM]

Dont you understand that if we stop using water for our selfish habits we could develop a super intelligence that would solve our water depletion in the first place!

[milo]

Dont you understand that if we stop using water for our selfish habits we could develop a super intelligence that would solve our water depletion in the first place!

This right here is why I stopped taking water in my whisky

And before you say it - yes, I know - ice is also made from water which is why I don't add ice to my whisky

[busker]

Water usage is one of those bogeymen
Relax, water doesn’t disappear into space. It all comes back to the surface.
All thermal power stations need water. All evaporative cooling systems need water.
It’s hardly an issue except in very specific areas which are addressed through the permitting process

[Xlateralus]

Humans have taste buds so they will eat the poison. It isn’t the taste buds so much as the self aware yearning for the feeling of pleasure.

Taste buds are just an end to a means. I would not focus too much on them, personally.