Human civilizations have survivorship bias such that you’re seeing the iterated output of those that found parameter insensitive parts of critical distributions. Exogenous shocks are common, and civs that weren’t metastable disappeared. This happened on both the cultural and genetic level (you are already a civilization of trillions of cells). As the pace of change accelerates things might get more dangerous as people push farther/harder within the span of a single lifetime before natural self corrections kick in (four horsemen). The current trend could be seen as the human race essentially tinkering with cancer (runaway, uncontrollable growth) to see if it will grant us immortality before it kills us.
Human civilizations have survivorship bias such that you’re seeing the iterated output of those that found parameter insensitive parts of critical distributions. Exogenous shocks are common, and civs that weren’t metastable disappeared. This happened on both the cultural and genetic level (you are already a civilization of trillions of cells). As the pace of change accelerates things might get more dangerous as people push farther/harder within the span of a single lifetime before natural self corrections kick in (four horsemen). The current trend could be seen as the human race essentially tinkering with cancer (runaway, uncontrollable growth) to see if it will grant us immortality before it kills us.