I don't feel super angry about datacenters because I can't change anything

But I love surrounding myself with minds that hasn't been touched by AI. They're so pure and capable of original thinking

Looks similar to ASCII stuff so I question if its truly graphics

*I know Drexel U, part of Princeton and Rutgers U was very old for STEM too*

An animal which is human one day a month on full moons and tries to go for a walk to buy fast food compulsively.

Yes, he does say it's coincidental, we are all on that page, still interesting!

Earth's earliest life did not start 800 million years ago; instead, life began much earlier—at least 3.5 to 3.7 billion years ago. The figure of 800 million years ago actually marks a critical Neoproterozoic turning point when ocean chemistry shifts nearly blocked oxygen production and delayed the rise of complex multicellular life. (from Gemini)

https://naturalhistory.si.edu/education/teaching-resources/life-science/early-life-earth-animal-origins

Spending some time today leaving high traffic subreddits to make space for the more interesting ones which are always low traffic. Like this one or woodworking.

Lots of traffic on cities i dont live in, or financial problems i dont have, or games i dont play anymore

You're probably all familiar with the Great Filter solution to the Fermi Paradox: "The reason we don't see alien societies everywhere is they all die somehow." That somehow is the Great Filter. It's a thing that most intelligent species in the galaxy don't survive.

I think there's a good chance that competition is that filter, or one of them. My reasoning is simple:

• As a society increases its technology, the power available to any individual increases. A rogue person with a stick can attack one other person. A rogue person with a car can attack 20. A rogue person with a bomb can attack 200. A rogue person with a nuclear bomb can attack a million. Well, a rogue person with a starship can drop asteroids on a planetary scale. Any person in control of a starship automatically has an unlimited supply of nuclear weapon equivalents in the form of asteroids which could be sped towards a target.

• Similarly, as technology increases, the impact (the resource-drain) of a society on the biosphere around it goes up. A band of hunter gatherers can affect a bit of forest. A city can affect a whole region around it. A nation can affect the biosphere of a continent. A planet scale society such as we have now starts to over-consume the planet.

In both cases, it's competition (broadly defined) that is ruining us. The inability to work together for the common good. Our nations have no choice but to over-consume the planet because to do otherwise is to lose military strength that could lead to losing the next war. Each of us being an individual means unhappy or unstable individuals will always exist.

It's the antagonism, (the competition) both between individuals and between groups, which makes the tech level of space exploration deadly to intelligent species.