Humanity is worthless

[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.