Yep, and our energy consumption is probably the biggest test of that self-control. We're burning through millions of years of stored sunlight in a couple centuries. If we don't figure out sustainable power generation soon, we're toast. I've been researching backup power options at gearscouts.com and the $/Wh efficiency of LFP batteries is getting way better, but we need grid-scale solutions.

Those aren't mutually exclusive, though. Even if 99.9% of a species fits in perfectly with the environment, if that last little sliver destroys everything, and the rest of the species is unable and/or unwilling to stop them, then we destroy everything anyway. Sure, it may not be ALL humans, but it's still humans.

Greed and lack of vision aren't flaws exclusive to white people. Implying such is racist.

White people?

What a stupid take.

Please see: street kids playing the game and hustling for money. It's the same exact strategy as businessmen. The same game. It's all the same from the bottom to the top, and these shitty rappers have people sucking their dick about struggle when they are doing the same manipulative things as the rich people.

Kill yourself, or go to war against it before you ever play that game.

Selling meth, crack and H, or pimping and trafficking is just as shitty as being a crooked cop making side money or a corrupt politician or businessman. Where were they when there were protests against cops? In 2020 they proved they are bitch and down for nothing but money. Not only that but when you understand how all that shit works, you know regular people use them, they are basically used by feds to do the dirty work the feds can't legally do.

Typical Lemmy comment.

Love of money is the root of all evil.

In reality, it's more like unfettered greed of certain people

Money is just paper. Now it's just bits on a disk.

The human need to acquire I think is the problem.

It's actually type b personally disorders. Without them, capitalism couldn't exist.

nature will be fine. when you really think about it the planet is just beget by the stars so like are we really that important? probably just one of a thousand attempts across the universe.

AI jumps out of its server farm to go refill the generator tanks?

I'm not sure about that.

But the point of Fermi's Paradox is that we are not seeing evidence of alien intelligence anywhere. We don't expect it here on earth, but we look out in space and see no light/radio/other waves that look like messages; no energy bursts or other anomalies that don't have better explainations (though some have no explaination at all). The Great Filter is simply a hypothesis -- like the Dark Forest -- as to why we don't see evidence of intelligent life in space.

If we went back to caves, we'd have great-filtered ourselves.

Cancer never killed people young in relevant quantities, that is a big reason why we never evolved to get rid of it to begin with: We already have old kids by the time it causes trouble. The same way getting another set of teeth never evolved. Or generally getting far older.

Or, if they get past the great filter of self-absorbed shittery, they either:

1. Realize how dangerous and pathetic almost smart enough species are and steer clear entirely.
2. Realize life itself is a game of greed and shittery and settle in to a life of reclusive observance to not be greedy.
3. Allow themselves to die off because life is a pathetic attempt to be special on a stage that is far too vast to ever change or give a damn about sentience.

The traits that allow a species to achieve global dominance are not compatible with long term survival.