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For me seeing Guy Macphearson was what helped me learn to stop torturing myself over climate doom because somebody asked him 'but, if you belive in near term human extinction how can you go on?' And his answer was more or less 'look I'm sorry to tell you this but everyone in this room was always already going to die, thats life! So i go on pretty much like normal, trying to do what seems right and taking care of the people I love and having fun I dunno??'
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Personally I believe consciousness was a cosmic mistake, a wound inflicted on a universe that does not deserve it, and it will be no great loss if it is gone. I get why this is a minority opinion though lol. Also, since adopting this attitude I have become MORE active, not less, in participating in ameliorative efforts. 'Resigning myself' to failure has made it possible for me to put more energy into the fight, paradoxically.
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Aramis posted:Biological life is shockingly effective at increasing entropy, to the point where abiogenesys can be seen as a thermodynamic evolutionary strategy. On top of that, the more complex the life, the more efficient said life is at that conversion. What I'm getting at is that there is a very real argument to be made that life, as well as consciousness, is an attempt by the universe to hasten its inevitable heat death. This rules, thank you.
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