I think humanity should just have one last mass party, like a festival world wide, and by the end of the night everyone kills themselves. It starts with the richest and celebrities and entertainers and we all observe their suicide and make sure they’ve died. And it’s not sad. It’s spiritual because we know it’s best for the the universe.
The Vogons will demolish Earth to build a hyperspace bypass before we find out the results.
We’re optimizing our fitness function as living beings (ie, we’re still alive), so I’d say that’s a solid thumbs-up.
I imagined that most would take a look at the carnage spewed out on media channels and decided to vote more negatively. But the fact that we are still here and still progressing (however slowly) must mean that we are winning somewhat
Yeah, I mean it depends a lot on what you think the purpose of the experiment is, right? I take a somewhat simplistic view at the big-picture scale: I want to live, therefore it’s better to be alive than dead, therefore continuing to be alive is exceeding my expectations and counts as a win in my book. But it’s more complicated once you get into the weeds of ‘purpose’ and such. For me I think there is no point or purpose to life beyond it as itself, we’re just a particularly complex chemical soup cast adrift in the universe left to work shit out for ourselves. But what that means is that I get to decide what everything means including life itself, and since I want to continue living and creating meaning I have decided that that means I am accomplishing my purpose in life. Yeah the world sucks and all that, but it is still populated by people and people are what matter; we can make the world a better place by improving the lives of those who live here by reducing the amount of suffering in it. As Camus says, the struggle itself is enough to fill a man’s heart.
You would need to also state what the metric is to provide a sensible answer.
I thought OP was going to ask “what do you think the metric is?”- I feel like that’s a more fun question. What do you think the metric would/could be?
You’re absolutely correct, but there is no metric. So go on gut feel.
Yes.
Poetry
It’s measured on an individual-to-individual basis, and I couldn’t possibly give you a fair, all encompassing aggregate. Mmm… we have gained previously unimaginable power over our world, and we understand the universe better than ever. On the other hand, large chunks of the world remain uncivilised, and in their barbaric incursions they kill and pillage indiscriminately… but now with stealth bombers and drone swarms. I don’t think we pass the test collectively, but maybe I’m too negative. But each person is responsible for and will be judged on their own behaviour anyway, not that of others, so 🤷.
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If life is an experiment, and there is a measuring tool
So that’s what keeps causing our wave function to collapse!
I don’t even know what that means but I like it.
