Good followup vid to wrap up the story. Super-clusters are among the last major frontier of understanding the Universe. My view is that they will show that there is/was no Big Bang, merely a succession of little bangs in a what is mostly a steady state background condition … the remnants of which are the Super-clusters.
Closer to home, analyzing the accelerating transition away from biology – towards the steps necessary for filling the role of the next dominant species on this unimportant planet - this vastness of Space demonstrates that humans are “below insignificant” in a relative way, just as Earth is. And then, to tie that painful fact into robotics and A.I. … well, it’s pretty clear that “our” days are numbered (if you identify with a species, instead of the end-point of an irreversible progression). Can we personalize that “endpoint” with a value judgment, making it a goal … or an ideal, instead of a blind journey with a negative end? Yes, probably we can and will, since the short history of technology already seems to point towards increasing intelligence as an end point, which sounds a lot like a goal instead of a random progression. The only real recourse for the future of humanity is to make the personal transition into that trend as pain-free as possible, such a via a hybridization of some kind – man-machine maybe, if you were impressed with Blade Runner. The prediction that seems to follow from these trends is that the next “religious” movement, and possibly the last, will center around how best to develop a technology (along with a mythology) for allowing the individual human mind to transition into the individual A.I. and to become part of its actual control mechanism. From: Steve High A good time to look at the big picture: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rENyyRwxpHo James Bowery wrote: Martin Luther King, Jr. recommended Henry George's citizen's dividend. But that's the last thing he ever did. They killed him and I believe it was because of that recommendation as it would have eliminated the need for the welfare bureaucracy and would have replaced the entire civil rights paradigm founded on "protected groups" with a completely neutral "general welfare". The American Enterprise Institute scholar and prominent libertarian theoretician Charles Murray pretty much recommended the same thing recently in his book "In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State". He was roundly ignored by MLK's supposed supporters, libertarians and conservatives. The interests arrayed against this on all sides of the political divides are enormous: Basically, anyone that uses the word "populist" with a sneer. Jed Rothwell wrote: Here is a good video about automation and employment: Humans Need Not Apply <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU> Some good quotes: after the Model T, people did not say: "There will be new jobs for horses we can't imagine!" There is not a rule that says, "better technology makes more better jobs for horses."
