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Clone D
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Posted - 2015.01.25 19:23:00 -
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Video games have such little practical application in reality - simulating equipment operation which may potentially impact job performance, or strategic/logistic planning on a small scale.
If you want to help the human race progress, then learn how to automate, how to design/build/repair robotics, how to create new materials, architect structures, manage large populations and plan logistics.
The next time someone blows you off because you spend most of your days plugged into a video game console, know that you are offering absolutely no value to your fellow humans whatsoever. You aren't helping anyone make it; not even yourself, deadbeat. |
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Posted - 2015.01.25 19:50:00 -
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Big Burns wrote:Clone D wrote:Video games have such little practical application in reality - simulating equipment operation which may potentially impact job performance, or strategic/logistic planning on a small scale.
If you want to help the human race progress, then learn how to automate, how to design/build/repair robotics, how to create new materials, architect structures, manage large populations and plan logistics.
The next time someone blows you off because you spend most of your days plugged into a video game console, know that you are offering absolutely no value to your fellow humans whatsoever. You aren't helping anyone make it; not even yourself, deadbeat. In any case if you had any kind of intellectual process going on up there in that tiny wee brain of yours, then you'd realize the inevitable...the human species is a virus, it destroys it's own planet and picks a few to rule over many. haha. Maggots is all we are. To think anything more about us is ignorant. You are going to be one those last few, trying to hold onto all of this life and what you've experienced then unfortunately die just like the rest of us. That is the reality of life and the human species as a whole. Accept it and stop trying so hard. lol.
The premise of your op was "your going to be one of those people that won't make it", thereby designating "making it" as the goal. Using the context of "making it", if you evaluate video game playing in comparison to engineering, computing, or any contributory job, the people exerting effort into making practicable decisions and executing a plan are the ones who provide a level of affluence above mere survival of our species. Nearly all humans have an innate drive to avoid pain and seek out pleasure. You have inherited the foundation of civilization that grants you abundant conveniences, without which you would be a mere animal in the wild, competing against nature. Respect what you've been given, and what you've been saved from by modern medicine, technology and morals.
If you're just waiting around to die, then playing video games between now and then will pass the time, but your original statement placed emphasis on "making it". It's about time that you learned the difference between entertainment and contribution. |
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Posted - 2015.01.25 20:14:00 -
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Big Burns wrote:Darken-Sol wrote:He doesn't understand living in a cell. Or how truly bad it will be Because once your leave a man to his thoughts with no distractions...the possibilities are endless. You become self-sufficient. You stop lying to yourself after awhile and accept everything for what it is. Amen Darken Sol.
Who is going to live in a cell? With brain machine interfaces, we will be able to supplant reality with customized digital qualia.
You seem to be speculating about the future, but you have left out the evolution of civilization and the complex interactions of progress in sundry fields.
It's not a realistic thought experiment to project who you are now into the distant future. You may even evolve beyond your biological body. |
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Posted - 2015.01.25 20:19:00 -
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Big Burns wrote:sir RAVEN WING wrote:Big Burns has lost it and is prepping for doomsday by sitting on his ass all day. No, I'm just saying nothing lasts forever. So do what you enjoy. People who plan for a future in THIS world...now that's a real waste of time.
If those people who plan for the future in this world enjoy how they pass their time, then it satisfies your mandate of doing what you enjoy. You must conceed that to them it may be intrinsically rewarding, whether or not you share their worldview. |
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Posted - 2015.01.27 09:24:00 -
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The European Space Agency is searching for exoplanets using a Satellite named Gaia.
In the future we may build von neuman probes to quickly map out our own galaxy and discover habitable zones.
We may build interstellar spacecraft allowing our species to permeate the galaxy.
In the meantime, we are deciphering the human brain and working toward artificial general intelligence, machines that can learn and develop cognitively. We are engineering bionics and gradually merging with technology.
None of these technologies, nor the hard work that produces them, come from video games.
In star trek, there is a proposal that people will entertain themselves using a holodeck. However the holodeck is not a substitute for reality. People do not spend their lives in the holodeck. They use it as a temporary supplement to enhance life, and then they return to their societal roles. In this way, they achieve balance and work actually gets done.
In Fahrenheit 451, people of the future take drugs to avoid pain and live in their own personal experience rooms, similar to the holodeck. The book poses the conundrum of whether it is best to escape or embrace reality.
From a standpoint of stable strategy, if everyone choses escapism all of the time, then we won't make progress. A balance between escapism and progress is essential, if we are going to improve our lives.
For instance, what if we were to develop nanotechnology that allowed us to voluntarily disable/enable pain receptors (nociceptors) in our bodies? Or what about technologies that allowed us to accelerate cognition and expand the bandwidth of our conscious thought?
Besides, who's to say that our reality is not a simulation observed by external intelligent lifeforms as we would observe an ant farm. Maybe we already are a video game. |
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