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Re:Kepler telescope glimpses population of free-floating pla... by wruza on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @08:38PM (#27756102)
Humans may change to (or get replaced by) a form of life that doesn’t grow and/or demand resources uncontrollably and inter-competitively. It is just a relic of our natural origins: eat and breed or get eaten and outbred. When biological reproduction (or life) is over, there is no need for trillions of energy. And when we are speaking billions of years, all humane/natural conceptions become pretty naive. I bet that no one could correctly fantasize about even thousands (not to mention millions) of years from now on. Almost all of our science fiction and futurism is Ford’s “faster horses” of evolution.

Edit: I learned before that this view seems controversial to many people, but I fail to see how on these timescales “humanity” could not be just a transient spark of its own short time.

Re:Kepler telescope glimpses population of free-floating pla... by whimsicalism on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @01:23PM (#27763569)
Selection pressure operates across all timescales and distance scales.

There is ample reason to believe that any prominent form of life in the galaxy would be expansionary, because otherwise it would be replaced by one that is.

There is no reason to believe that selection stops operating when we are talking about galaxy level scale.