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The idealized future in my option has something like 1/1000th of the current population

It’s thermodynamically impossible for 8-10Billon animals that have no satiation reflex and limited coordination capacity to live on a resource limited rock

Absolute Best case future is what I wrote in 2025 which is basically humans living in care facilities managed by machines:

https://kemendo.com/We%20All%20Slept%20Well.pdf



>The idealized future in my option has something like 1/1000th of the current population

Okay! You first though. What, still here?


I’ve tried to kill myself a lot of times but people seem to want me to stay around so unfortunately I am stuck here with everybody else.


"You participate in society, how curious"

If they're choosing not to have kids then they are doing their part towards their beliefs.


Nope, using the "I am very intelligent" comic doesn't work to defend those who want to eliminate society


Oh see that’s where you’ve hallucinated (apparently not just computer hallucinate after all ;))

Who said anything about elimination?

All that has to happen is for people to stop reproducing

We’re already pretty well along that track (except Afghanistan and the DRC)


>All that has to happen is for people to stop reproducing

And if they don't?...


More of the same then


There is a more direct action possible here.

The thing is, in advocating for removing 999 out of 1000 people (how? I don't hear a suggestion for a gradual decline, so assuming a bloody genocide seems like a reasonable interpretation), opens a body up to pretty harsh criticism. It's reasonable to read that line of reasoning as a direct threat!


That is a strange ideal, and I am an environmental nutso myself.


You have a better long term plan for humanity?

Whats the next 20000 years look like in your mind?


Hey, I saw that movie! The little robots were cute.


Which?! I’d love to see a version of my short story of someone already did it


I think that the parent means Wall-E: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WALL-E#Plot




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