[jacknews]

I don't think we should strive to remake the galaxy for human comfort and desires, but instead strive to remake ourselves, to be better suited to the environments we inhabit.

[wly_cdgr]

I disagree. I think we should definitely try to remake not just our galaxy but the universe for our comfort and desires

[jacknews]

If we have the power to transform the universe, we have the power to transform ourselves.

Why would we make the universe ape our biologically-inspired needs and desires, when we could transcend them and become so much more?

[wly_cdgr]

I think we are plenty as is, and as for why bother to make the universe do our bidding - because there's great pleasure satisfaction and fulfillment in bending cold indifferent nature to our will...not to mention in enjoying a hot cup of cocoa, a good book, and a long slow blowjob by the fireplace on a dark wintry night

If you have not seen the Les Blank documentary Always For Pleasure, I highly recommend it

[throwaway6532]

>I think we are plenty as is, and as for why bother to make the universe do our bidding - because there's great pleasure satisfaction and fulfillment in bending cold indifferent nature to our will...

We're starting to wake up to the reality that all we're really doing is bending it out of shape and when we push it beyond the yield strength it will snap.

[jotm]

Why not? It's a huge place.

Why don't you transcend and stop using electricity? Needs and desires.

[mxkopy]

It may be the case that if we do this, the universe in the long term will become increasingly hostile to our inhabitation.

Maybe our wants, pleasures, ideas of how the universe should be, don't make any sense in the context of physical reality, just like moving at 1 billion m/s relative to a stationary observer doesn't make any sense in the context of physical reality.

[jotm]

Maybe start with a country lol