It always feels like some form of VR tech comes out with some sort of fanfare and with a promise it will take over the world, but it never does.

  • Paragone@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Politics: IF the political-mechanism selects-for DarkTriad, putting that in authority,

    THEN … it’s only going to make our world non-viable.

    Eventually fatally.

    Other criteria & selection is required, XOR humankind self-extinguishes, this-century: The Great Filter.

    You can’t have a world-species be rampaging/tantruming for toddler-ego, through planetscaping industry & militaries, being ruled by DarkTriad in authority, without extinction being raised into maximal-likelihood.

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      24 hours ago

      Could be, although we’ve had a few psychopaths in charge of world-ending nuclear arsenals and avoided the worst of it for now.