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What if the great filter of humanity is to overcome it's own nature that made it the dominant species of the planet and what if that is the universal great filter that makes the cosmos silent (lemmy.world)
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[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

I've seen it a lot recently.

Person 1: nature will recover, but humanity will go extinct.

Person 2: actually, humanity won't go extinct [list of information about humanity's resiliency]

Person 1 (or 3rd party reading): oh cool, not that big a deal then

Lost in this discussion: mass extinctions bad