Date: 28/08/2020 14:51:19
From: transition
ID: 1611402
Subject: the end days

once the expanding world human population becomes mostly entirely interconnected, the larger social organism electrified, forming a super-intelligence, a collective intelligence, enhanced by other computational machines, and the good news from all over the world, floods, hurricanes, fires, whatever, all the good news collected quickly, much of it perhaps live, transmitted around the globe to anywhere at the speed of light, or nearing the speed of light, and this way is normalized, will there be a natural person remaining on the planet

what natural person would want to know about so much, so quickly

everyone’s potentially a little news service these days, consumer and news provider, a wonderful turn

the good news is that the more people there are, and the more climate change, the more news there will be, so that’s a win for news consumers, and news providers

anyway, onto the subject of polar ice melts, caused by global warming, I was wondering how big a deal that is, it doesn’t seem like a good thing to me

everyone might have good internet by 2035 or whatever, be able to see the last of the arctic ice melt, though could be way longer than that, if at all, but it’s nice to have a plague presently, a good distraction, something closer to immediately threatening of the human population, seems realer

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Date: 28/08/2020 20:31:36
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1611569
Subject: re: the end days

transition said:


once the expanding world human population becomes mostly entirely interconnected, the larger social organism electrified, forming a super-intelligence, a collective intelligence, enhanced by other computational machines, and the good news from all over the world, floods, hurricanes, fires, whatever, all the good news collected quickly, much of it perhaps live, transmitted around the globe to anywhere at the speed of light, or nearing the speed of light, and this way is normalized, will there be a natural person remaining on the planet

what natural person would want to know about so much, so quickly

everyone’s potentially a little news service these days, consumer and news provider, a wonderful turn

the good news is that the more people there are, and the more climate change, the more news there will be, so that’s a win for news consumers, and news providers

anyway, onto the subject of polar ice melts, caused by global warming, I was wondering how big a deal that is, it doesn’t seem like a good thing to me

everyone might have good internet by 2035 or whatever, be able to see the last of the arctic ice melt, though could be way longer than that, if at all, but it’s nice to have a plague presently, a good distraction, something closer to immediately threatening of the human population, seems realer

> … forming a super-intelligence …

PMSL. I think you need a word other than “intelligence”.

> will there be a natural person remaining on the planet

Interesting question. Opens a can of worms.

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Date: 28/08/2020 21:36:14
From: transition
ID: 1611611
Subject: re: the end days

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_sea_ice_decline

just read that^

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