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by cousin_it
6618 days ago
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They became smaller. Found a galaxy in every atom and started colonizing them. Life on the micro-level is fun because the speed of light is relatively huge. They became faster. Foreseeing the heat depth of the universe, they invented a way to squeeze an eternity of subjective time into a second of real time, and stayed there. Or turned around in time. Or started oscillating back and forth in the same time interval. They invented wish control, eliminated the survival instinct and went extinct. They contacted God and ascended. |
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Really, the only reason we are as intelligent as we are is because intelligence turned out to be helpful for survival. But that same intelligence lets us defeat our own survival instincts (which is why we have obesity, drug addiction, and porn). This suggests that for continued survival, either our instincts must become stronger than our intellects or our intellects must become weaker than our instincts -- both of which lead to the same place: exhaustion of resources before we actually accomplish anything.
(Disclaimer: I recently rented "Idiocracy".)