Nope, just relatively. Though how do you want to define consciousness could change my nope to a yes. It's all about the definition.
All I can see when I read this comment is a plaque to blind confidence. Don't take it the wrong way, I don't mean it as a wholly a bad thing.. maybe 90% bad, 10% admiration. Confidence is powerful, but it works best when paired with other traits.
..but back to the thread, unless you're involved in this topic at an academic level, can you explain the reasoning behind the confidence you appear to have in your perspective?
I didn't see what the family was compensated for the bracelet in the article. Would seem odd to me if there is zero compensation.
Concentrating them into camps you say?
What a unique and novel historical event with no comparison. Wouldn't wanna accidentally be antisemitic.
There is a more extreme version of doomerism which is accelerationism.
So sure, we may be doomed, and since no one is doing anything about it in time.. fuck it, let's speed things up. Build more coal, clear cut forests, kill every insect. Let's show people how bad it can get and how fast. No one's grandchild gets a future.
The nice thing about this worldview is that you wake up every morning to good news. New oil pipelines, shrinking aquifers to cool data centres, a couple dozen more extinct species, etc.
This belief system sees humans as a plague on the planet that is luckily self-healing. Good luck to the next wave of humans in 2-30 million years.
Sounds crazy right? Maybe, but since the only historical alternative is class violence, ..and since that's a no-no topic, we are left with the choice to accept a terminal diagnosis and just die like a good peon. We wouldn't want to inconvenience rich people.
The same rich people who have been spending the past two decades building reinforced under-mountain bunkers and meeting with security advisors for tips on how to keep human security in line in a world where money has no value. But no, that's just a hobby, they totally don't think the world is in trouble.
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