Towards a more Elvish vision for Technology

Re:Towards a more Elvish vision for Technology by ModernMech on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @09:31AM (#27760897)

But Nature also has given us everything we need to survive. Just because it's also deadly doesn't mean it isn't kind. Compare the Earth's hostility to Mars. Despite all its dangers, Nature seems downright cuddly by that measure.

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Re:Towards a more Elvish vision for Technology by merpnderp on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @10:55AM (#27761826)

Nature didn't give us anything. Our DNA evolved to take from Nature.

No buffalo walks up to a lion and gives itself up, the lion evolved to take, brutally and with often needless cruelty.

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Re:Towards a more Elvish vision for Technology by ModernMech on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @11:39AM (#27762313)

That there's anything there at all to take is the point.

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Re:Towards a more Elvish vision for Technology by jasperry on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @11:26AM (#27762175)

This argument might be missing the distinction between humanity as a species and individual existence. No doubt humanity has thrived, but most individual human lives face significant struggles and hardships. We are here because we've been able to adapt and survive in relation to the rest of nature, but nature doesn't make it easy for us, and everybody dreams of having it easier. We continually fantasize about having greater power to protect ourselves from nature.

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