timtyler comments on Our society lacks good self-preservation mechanisms - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 14 July 2009 08:37:38PM 0 points [-]

I sometime wonder why people think this outcome is bad. It is what we will probably get - unless we manage to eliminate competetion and overrule natural selection. In that case, we will still probably get something very similar - since expansion is probably the best way to defend yourself against aliens.

Comment author: infotropism 14 July 2009 09:00:24PM 2 points [-]

I sometime wonder why people think this outcome is bad.

Mind if I ask, but, as opposed to considering it good ?

Comment author: timtyler 14 July 2009 11:03:58PM 1 point [-]

Indeed. Successfully colonising space is conventionally part of our Glorious Future.