>>12957335E.O. Wilson put The Problem, as I see it, best when he asked [how can we survive when we have] Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology? Nikolas Bostrom of Oxford University’s Future of Humanity Institute explains it further in his famous Vulnerable World Hypothesis.
Our world is roughly, one in which there is some level of technological development at which civilization almost certainly gets devastated by default, i.e. unless it has exited the ‘semi-anarchic default condition’.
https://nickbostrom.com/papers/vulnerable.pdf.
He asks us to imagine yet to be discovered technology as if they are all marbles in a bag of marbles. Some are black, some are white. In fact, most are white. White marbles help mankind, black marbles end it. If nuclear weapons were as easy to make as putting sand in a microwave, there wouldn’t be a human race any more. If technology continues to increase at a geometric rate and our emotions continue to be stagnant, it seems like it would be a matter of when, rather than a matter of if, dangerous technology becomes reproducible enough to pose an existential threat to humanity.
Bostrom supposes that civilization like ours almost certainly wind up devastated by default ‘unless it has exited the semi-anarchical default condition’. Contact with Aliens, and sharing their technology, may be our ticket out of that doomsday default condition. Given their advanced technology and continued existence, they will have already solved this problem for longer than we have and with more powerful potential weapons at hand.
It is wise to be skeptical; it is foolish to be recalcitrant in the face of newly discovered evidence.
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