A Disturbing Read...
05-02-2008, 02:57 AM (This post was last modified: 01-11-2018, 03:05 PM by Bob Schroeck.)
05-02-2008, 02:57 AM (This post was last modified: 01-11-2018, 03:05 PM by Bob Schroeck.)
Read why Nick Bostrom, the director of the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford, hopes that our attempts to disover extraterrestrial life fail, and why that would be good for humanity. And no, it's not because he's afraid we'd be invaded or culturally overrun. I can't decide if this is an optimistically pessimistic viewpoint, or a pessimistically optimistic one...
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.