Maybe the great filter is the misuse of apostrophes?
Maybe the great filter is crabs dragging others down to their level.
Even at loss of limb, those who escape are the 144000, sent to show others the way?
Hell of a shower thought, Mr. Sagan.
Can’t say I’d ever get a shower erection with that thought. /tmi
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Cleansing as a pretentious melancholic.
I think the evolution of multicellular life is most likely to be the great filter, since it took the longest to develop on earth.
We tend to focus on distance from it’s star and size to determine a planet’s habitability, but one of the most distinctive things about Earth is that it is essentially a two-planet system with the moon. The ratio of planet size to orbital object is pretty unique. The moon has all kinds of benefits, like tides and deflecting objects from Earth.
Then there’s the magnetosphere, which Mars doesn’t have and look what happened to it. And Jupiter’s massive size and gravitational influence play a crucial role in protecting Earth from extraterrestrial objects, including comets and asteroids.
Even with all that the Earth might never have developed intelligent life.
Maybe the great filter was the friends we made along the way?
What if the great filter is our love of carbs?
Hey, carbs are awesome.
Leave the flying spaghetti monster out of this.
May you be touched by his noodley appendage.
I don’t think that’s an “if” at all. I firmly believe that that’s exactly it.
The same behaviours that we needed to evolve are harmful now that we’ve reached a potential “post-scarcity” stage.
To put it more bluntly, the drive to compete for resources in order to survive is what made us the dominant species. Now that post-scarcity is essentially upon us, our nature is to create artificial scarcity in order to satiate that drive for competition. And it will be the ultimate end of us.
These are pretty much the thoughts I had.
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I like the idea that the Great Filter is really just civilizations turning inward. Like they all get to a point where they realize that space travel is just really not viable and so they stop looking to explore the universe or find other life. Instead they turn to virtual worlds to prolong their existence with what resources they have available in their own star systems. Not even Dyson spheres or anything, they just go into digital hibernation and live out the rest of their lifetimes in a fabricated paradise for however long they can. Maybe they’re able to use drugs/genetics/whatever to slow time down to a crawl where it feels like they live thousands of years within a normal lifespan.
For Outer Wilds fans, basically:
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Like uploads? If so, couldn’t they have all this fun while slowly traveling the universe?
“We’re sorry to interrupt everyone’s simulation, but we’re happy to remind you that you’re a person on a spaceship and we just found something interesting!”
Then we would start ‘behavorial sink’ and slowly decline in population. Someone else mentioned Calhoun and his rat utopia the other day and I looked it up. It seems like we are going through our version of behavioral sink.
I don’t know if this theory has a proper name but I have seen it multiple times.
If a species has the ability to push their technology to the point they could become a space faring species, that technology will destroy the civilization before it can get there
That is basically The Great Filter theory the OP was referring to.
Yeah I guess I didn’t read very carefully
It may depend on the rate they get to that point. Add in a dense energy source that’s suddenly available and the rise of tech may be lethal. Perhaps the lucky ones don’t have something like petroleum so their species matures long before they ruin their world.
Back up…dude with a 10th grade level understanding of biology and chemistry coming through with a question…
So carbon-based life forms can, under the right circumstances, decompose into long chains of hydrocarbons like Petroleum.
Does that mean silicon-based life forms under the right circumstances would break down into hydrosilicates like caulk?
I don’t know about the end result under the same extremes. I do know that silicon life, while not impossible, it’s probably unlikely. Silicon does parallel carbon in some ways including a similar location on the periodic chart (which is why it got attention from scifi writers), but the issue is simply silicon is nowhere near as “greedy” as carbon bonds.
But it is a big universe.
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Reminds me of my thoughts after reading “Why Buddhism is True” by Robert Wright. If you haven’t read it before I highly recommend it.
So we all just happily go back to living in forest?
Return to monkee
It was a bad idea to get out of the oceans if you ask me.
Return to sea-monkee?
The thing is we could largely retain all our advances and live in a more fecund environment. A large portion of our pollution is unnecessary and tied to whatever you call this global economic system / social paradigm we’ve backed ourselves into. It’s only either or between forest and urban blight because we’ve made it so
Why not?
So like, we all just give up as a species? Sounds unlikely.
Think of Star Trek as an analogy.
- The Archers, Pikes, Kirks succeeded by being bold and daring, confronting dangers, fighting to survive. The Siskos and Burnhams instigated war on a galactic scale. They were violent, reactive, risk takers
- a couple centuries later, the Picards confronted greater obstacles but with reason, compassion, self-sacrifice. If Kirk had faced Q, that would have been the great filter, but Picard succeeded as a human evolved past his violent reactions
I’ve never watched Star Trek.
I know, heresy for lemmy.
I also use windows and not linux (though I plan on switching when I get time to learn linux)
Wow, it’s like talking to an Alien …… while I do occasionally use Windows, my main laptop is OSX, my home servers are Raspian and Suse and at work I use Red Hat, Debian and whatever Amazon Linux is, and my media consumption is Linux or iOS
I didn’t understand the question. What is a “great filter”?
No BS, seriously don’t know and want to.
This covers it pretty well.
If you want a very short version: a hypothetical eventuality in the technological advancement of intelligent life, as to limit their existence.
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I mean there are multiple proposed filters.
Suppose yours is correct. What is this humanity’s nature you speak of?
Bravery? Foolishness? Wisdom? Violence? Greed?
What what of those attributes haven’t we already overcome time and again?
It’s much more probable that everyone out there is attentively listening to signals instead of radically changing their own mental processes. Or not
Wtf kinda world are you living in where humanity has overcome foolishness, violence, and greed?
I think they meant for five minutes because if you won, you won right?
Exactly. Everyone thought nuclear war might be one of the great filters but we survived the Cold War. Nuclear weapons are no longer a concern, right? Right?
I mean I don’t see people practice nuclear drills anymore so yeah
Sounds like little but it’s a lot and it compounds
I mean same as yours I hope? People do that daily, hope you grow to notice it. It’s nice when you do
