The Great Filter

[Anonymous No.10759254]

Pretty simple really, you’d have to be an idiot not to know. No place on the timeline has a planet-wise extinction event except where humans are approaching now.

Humans are inventing tools they grow infinitely dangerous. Nuclear weapons don’t really count, because very few people can get radioactive material. AI, nanobots, and virus/bacteria gene editing however, are not limited at all. Any shit-monkey and wackjob can get ahold of the materials necessary to create a cataclysmic event in the comfort of their own homes.

The only way to prevent this is surveillance of every human on the planet, maybe by some benevolent Nanny AI. But we all know that would never happen, sentient beings value freedom too much and besides any government with that kind of power would certainly abuse it. However, the human race would not go extinct.

I believe the only way past the Great Filter is through authoritarian rule and a surveillance state. However, I acknowledge this is unacceptable to many if not most humans - therefore, our species will almost certainly go extinct when these technologies become readily available. Probably the next 20-100 years before someone tries some crazy terrorist shit.

[Anonymous No.10759260]

sci-fi role-playing is not science or math.

>>>/x/

[Anonymous No.10759268]

>>10759260
Are you one of those crackpots they believe climate change and genetic engineering are “fake news”? Sorry, they are real
>>>/pol/

[Anonymous No.10759374]

>>10759254
Calculus II

[Anonymous No.10759433]

>>10759254
>waitbutwhy
Stopped reading at cocksucking Elon groupie.

[Anonymous No.10760014]

I've got your great filter right here.

[Anonymous No.10760019]

>>10760014

This. When NASA became a "Muslim outreach program", alarm bells should've been ringing

[Anonymous No.10760179]

>>10760014
How could anyone believe the bottom graph
It's illogical
Personally I think IQ is nonsense but even I know that it's a test where the mean is forced to 100. Having a global IQ that decreases is retarded. Not to mention the Flynn effect completely debunks this graph

[Anonymous No.10760186]

>>10760179
tell me how I know you don’t understand what the second thing you just invoked means

[Anonymous No.10760191]

>>10760179
>it's a test where the mean is forced to 100
It was originally forced to 100 for its intended sample of people, which was largely restricted to civilized (white) countries.
>Flynn effect
has vanished, but at any rate would also contradict your first claim

[Anonymous No.10760224]

>>10760191
How? The Flynn effect is essentially an increase in IQ (effectively) but the IQ scores themselves did not increase as much because they were forced back to 100
I also don't understand how the science board takes psychometrics so seriously, it's about as scientific as psychoanalysis

[Anonymous No.10760244]

The great filter is suicide.

[Anonymous No.10760250]

>>10760224
>le scientific
Thanks for the professional, informed opinion. There are too many people who bandy "scientific" about as a catchphrase to try and win arguments. If I want to know more I'll be sure to ask you on Reddit.

[Anonymous No.10760254]

>>10759254
there had been big extinctions before humans appeared

[Anonymous No.10760257]

>>10760250
God this board is shit

[Anonymous No.10760389]

>>10759268
>>>/t/hecoldembraceofdeath

[Anonymous No.10760498]

>>10759254
I must say. Quite extraordinary.

[Anonymous No.10760506]

I am the great filter. The most likely future is humanity being wiped out by 2085 after the cataclysm I cause in 2084.
There are people there working to change what happens but they have only been able to communicate with a handful of people, most of which can't process it.

[Anonymous No.10760510]

>>10759254
it's not the tools that are the great filter, it's rather the fear of using them, the lack of political will to keep going to space. That and niggers.

[Anonymous No.10760515]

>>10760191
>when you hate trees so much that you use a printer as a screen