(August 18, 2014 at 7:07 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Roads are (marginally) straight lines made of crushed rocks. Lightbulbs are just slow burning fires(new ones are nice, you know, an arc under a lens.....). I just don't think that either is all that impressive in context.Maybe you are just hard to impress. I'm pretty impressed our mistakes. I'll just use the great planes as an example. It was originally dominated by Bison stampedes that would stretch for miles upon miles. Then we wiped them out to near extinction within a hundred years. Then our agricultural habits turned the great planes into an expanding wasteland, blowing dust all the way to the Atlantic.
Our achievements redeemed our horrific mistake. We found an ancient water source buried beneath the surface of the earth and cured the land of drought. We also preserved the bison, so today you can enjoy a delicious buffalo burger.
It's okay if you're not impressed. You think the horses we rode across the planet were garbage. That is where we throw shit we no longer need. Lets hope whatever AI program we build to be smarter than us doesn't catch on to your philosophy.
god is supposed to be imaginary
