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[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 20 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

I genuinely wanna hear the reasoning if there’s true believers out there buying into this shit.

I mean granted, they did sell em the ol orange carsalesman pdf as president.

Humanity is fucked isn’t it?

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 5 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

if there’s true believers out there buying into this shit

Leaving Joe Rogan aside, I remember the cases of one Google employee who believed that their AI programs had reached sentience. So, yes.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago

Humanity is fucked isn’t it?

Yeah, but we've always been and we keep surviving.

Our species can be defined by states of how fucked we've been and what we did as a species to overcome that fuckedness.

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

People think he's smart. I think some people want him to be right because they identify more with him, and he says some of the same things they think.

Humanity is fucked isn’t it?

We're genetically 96% identical to chimpanzees, considering that, we're not doing too bad

[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Well, when the rich and powerful control everything, yes. But I don't think it's just humanity anymore, I think a lot of life will have to adapt to the destruction of the planet. And if they don't, they just die off.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

If you study history you see just how fleeting the reign of the rich and powerful really is. Our story is littered with forgotten bones of people who once commanded armies or held vast swaths of dirt they claimed to "own."

Everything changes, the world turns over, everything is recycled. Including those who think themselves great or mighty or worth listening to. The world changes, climates change, species change, life goes on.

At least until the carbon cycle expires, but that's a long way off.