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“When you’re omnipotent, the option of stopping the annoyance without harming anyone is just as easy as stopping the annoyance by making everyone involved suddenly vanish.”
Omnipotent is not an accurate description. The exterminators would probably be more like humans, if we were mosquitoes: they kill us if we get too close. Or they put up a trap for us to fly into and die. Mosquitoes bite, causing annoyance, and humans, too, could bite the exterminators (e.g. try to overthrow them?) so they’d rather just get rid of the annoyance before we do anything drastic.
Edit: Actually after thinking about it I think we might be more like bacteria/fungi, cuz we might consume or poison their food (resources like energy or matter).
I think the K-T event wouldn’t be that big of a filter, it doesn’t seem that unlikely to me. After all, there have been five great extinctions already (the Permian extinction being an even greater one).
Also, encephalization quotient has been superseded by cerebral neuron count— and pilot whales actually have more neocortical neurons than humans. I believe the greatest filter we have passed is actually language, as it facilitates the preservation and sharing of information. Language allowed for the agricultural revolution and the development of civilization.
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Didn’t read it all yet but I wanted to ask before I forgot– you include dopamine but not serotonin, and I think serotonin is as important, if not more important, than dopamine, though they have synergy with each other so it’s futile to compare them. Maybe it could be useful to add.
also small nitpick– in 15.2.1.2 you use 1. 2. first in the numbering but then you use A. B. in the body paragraphs