Comments by "Charles Brightman" (@charlesbrightman4237) on "The Doomsday Machine | Daniel Ellsberg | Talks at Google" video.
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Every conscious entity, AI's included, have choices:
Help, Neutral, Hurt, and to whom to Help, Neutral, Hurt.
Every entity also has agendas which can range from being open and honest to hidden and not honest. Agendas could also range from being life long to changing from moment to moment in time. Even 'nature' could be said to have an agenda, to follow the flow of energy of nature.
Now also, we appear to be individuals in a society of individuals. What is best for an individual may or may not be what is best for the larger society of individuals and conversely, what is best for the larger society of individuals may or may not be what is best for an individual. But, we appear to be individuals in a society of individuals, we have to exist somehow, someway while we do all exist.
How exactly do we, individually and as a society of individuals, want to exist while we do exist? We do have choices, with all the consequences and ramifications, seen and unseen, of all those collective choices.
Will we have species continue to consciously survive beyond this Earth and solar system so life has continued meaning and purpose, or will we all die and go extinct as one day there won't be a conscious entity, not even an AI, consciously left to care?
Choices, life and death choices for our and other species, what exactly do we, individually and as a society of individuals choose?
(And oh, no choice and the choice gets made for us, we die and all go extinct.)
Additionally, space travel has gotten more expensive just in my lifetime. What exactly is space travel going to cost in the next one hundred, one thousand, one million years from now? Economic inflation just might kill us all. Science doesn't even know what 'gravity' actually is nor how it does what it does. Without artificial gravity for space bases, large rotating space ships won't really work for space bases on planets and moons, none of us will probably successfully make it out of this solar system.
So, talking about a 'Doomsday Machine' is nothing compared to what it appears nature is going to do to us all.
What exactly do we, individually and as a society of individuals, choose? What is our agenda?
Do we Help, Be Neutral To, or Hurt, and to whom? Do we at least try to save ourselves and possibly other species or just all die and go extinct? What do we choose?
(And if our choice is to just die one day from something and all go extinct, then let's choose to PARTY AND ENJOY LIFE!!!! Just think how good of a party we could all have with all the blood and treasure spent on wars alone.)
PARTY OR SPACE TRAVEL, OR PARTYING IN SPACE WHILE TRAVELING, CHOICES, SO MANY CHOICES.
CHEERS AND PEACE.
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The mention of 'climate change':
The Sun is going into grand solar minimum and the Earth's magnetic fields continue to weaken and move, possibly on their way to another flip, maybe not though too. Sometimes they flip and sometimes they don't. BUT, with the Sun going into grand solar minimum we lose some of our solar shield around this Earth which allows more cosmic radiation to reach this planet. AND with the Earth's magnetic fields weakening we lose our magnetic shield around this Earth which allows more cosmic radiation to reach the surface of this Earth. PLUS, while not all matter is considered magnetic, all matter can be affected by magnetism due to the magnetic fields around electrons, protons and quarks. More earthquakes, volcanoes, super volcanoes, especially the one in Yellowstone which is overdue to go off? And there is more, but this might be enough.
Add to all this, consider what microwave ovens in your kitchen do to food and drinks. The microwaves rotate the H2O molecules in food and drinks to heat them up. We have been dumping microwave electromagnetic radiation energy into the atmosphere for decades and decades. Anybody willing to give up your cell phones and satellite communications along with other microwave driven technologies? Then of course add to all that the CO2 in the atmosphere and the changes that brings.
6th mass extinction event here on this Earth here we come and without a very pro-active space program, we have no place to go to.
If we had more 'space industrial complexes' and less 'military industrial complexes' and spent all that blood and treasure on a very pro-active space program, trying to save species instead of killing species, where would we all be today? Would at least some of our species survive?
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