Alright, so we pump energy into a chaotic system and obviously the extremes will get more exteme. Stronger hurricanse, colder hurricanse and snap freezes, deeper floods, wet bulb events further north than you think possible, whatever. This is the known unknown.

I am existentially afraid of the unknown unknowns. At what point do the phytoplankton I'm currently breathing the poop of have a mass extinction event? All of human civilization is about to drown on dry land and I spend 5 days a week maintaining software that charges people for turning on their lights.

I crave death I crave oblivion death to america death to capitalism death to me.

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[–] heartheartbreak@hexbear.net 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

How do we even know that the universe will not spontaneously disappear at any moment? The whole issue and solution to unknown unknowns is to recognize they exist and subsequently that it doesn't matter if you do or do not because they are unknowable

[–] BigHaas@hexbear.net 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

on the one had this is an interesting point on the other neanderthals have existed for half a million years and the industrial revolution has existed for 100 and already half of the species have died

[–] heartheartbreak@hexbear.net 2 points 9 months ago

Yea there's things that we can recognize objectively but that's the whole reason we organize. Unknown unknowns or not we only have a chance if we can organize what can only be referred to as a positive unknown unknown ourselves. Everything outside of that control is ultimately outside of any reason to worry about