“Now that we know who you are...I know who I am. I’m not a mistake! It all makes sense. In a comic, you know how you can tell who the arch-villain’s going to be? He’s the exact opposite of the hero, and most times they’re friends, like you and me. I should’ve known way back when. You know why, D? Because of the kids. They called me Mr. G.”
I love fictional evidence. Interpret as you will.
Eliezer—would you not say that humanity could take its pick of super-villains, but chooses not to do so because this would be akin to taking out flood insurance when there had been no floods in living memory? Nuclear war, near-Earth objects, global warming, grey goo, take your pick of vaguely-disturbing-but-comfortably-removed-from-real-life Doomsday Scenarios.
I fear humanity wouldn’t unite, Independence Day-style, until our destruction was pretty much assured. Or, more likely, until the markets noticed that the end was nigh and sought to do something about it.
I’ve no doubt everyone’s well aware of Phil Zimbardo’s seminal 1970s prison guard experiments, but if not, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
/Stanford_prison_experiment
“Now that we know who you are...I know who I am. I’m not a mistake! It all makes sense. In a comic, you know how you can tell who the arch-villain’s going to be? He’s the exact opposite of the hero, and most times they’re friends, like you and me. I should’ve known way back when. You know why, D? Because of the kids. They called me Mr. G.”
I love fictional evidence. Interpret as you will.
Eliezer—would you not say that humanity could take its pick of super-villains, but chooses not to do so because this would be akin to taking out flood insurance when there had been no floods in living memory? Nuclear war, near-Earth objects, global warming, grey goo, take your pick of vaguely-disturbing-but-comfortably-removed-from-real-life Doomsday Scenarios.
I fear humanity wouldn’t unite, Independence Day-style, until our destruction was pretty much assured. Or, more likely, until the markets noticed that the end was nigh and sought to do something about it.
I’ve no doubt everyone’s well aware of Phil Zimbardo’s seminal 1970s prison guard experiments, but if not, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki /Stanford_prison_experiment