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The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.
Maybe the Singularity happened years ago. We just don’t want to admit we were left behind.
Surely, said the Optimists, space travel implies enlightenment, for it requires the control of great destructive energies. Any race that can’t rise above its own brutal instincts will wipe itself out long before it learns to bridge the interstellar gulf.
We all come into the story halfway through, we all catch up as best we can, and we’re all gonna die before it ends.” “That’s my Isaac. Master of the no-win scenario.”
THAT WHICH DOES NOT KILL US, MAKES US STRANGER.
