190k years of skill issue
Posted by Affectionate-Fan-280@reddit | greentext | View on Reddit | 224 comments
Posted by Affectionate-Fan-280@reddit | greentext | View on Reddit | 224 comments
BlackStack3@reddit
It took so long for the very same reason regards cant grasp how exponential growth works
YesIam6969420@reddit
True. We should make sure that civilization doesn't have to start from zero again if we fuck up. We owe that much to the future humans at the very least.
ImmaSuckYoDick2@reddit
Way ahead of you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Knowledge:_How_to_Rebuild_Our_World_from_Scratch
Also look into Nuclear semiotics. Scientists who try to make warning signs for nuclear waste facilities that can be understood by humans from any culture, time, religion, etc regardless of what calamities might happen to humanity for the next ten thousand years. And there's the Memory of Mankind project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_of_Mankind#Ceramic_data_carriers
oddun@reddit
Nah we should leave them giant pyramids and nascar lines and so on - they’ll just work it out right? Right?
BeavMcloud@reddit
Wtf those lines are meant for racing?!
AppleJuiceMoose@reddit
Going real fast, and real left, son!
oddun@reddit
Vroom vroom compadre.
Hau65@reddit
a couple case of spam too
SuperNoise5209@reddit
If anyone likes vintage sci-fi, that's partially the plot of The Mote In God's Eye.
Radical-Efilist@reddit
It's not about knowledge, it's about social and economic organization. A simple steam engine was described more than a thousand years ago, but if you want to use steam engines you need to have sophisticated metalworking, which means you need mining, smelting, effective agriculture, trade etc etc.
Genuinely, all of modern technology could've been written down somewhere 150 000 years ago and it wouldn't have made a difference. At the point where actual archaeology happens, we were already mid-industrialization.
immaownyou@reddit
I think there's a lot of these kicking around. I remember seeing a doc once that had a part where someone had embedded steel pillars in the ground with basic scientific concepts edged into it with images
smokescreen1030@reddit
I’m pretty sure this is the original stated goal of groups like Templars and Freemasons. They of course then introduce the questions of how progress should be preserved, and by whom, and what even counts as progress, etc.
correctingStupid@reddit
Ignoring that rock technology in itself went from rocks found to an assortment of ultra sharp tools, people were halfbaked through most of humanity. How are they supposed to get any work done with all them titties floppin all over the place.
lonesome_pierrette@reddit
And that's what scares me so much about AI development. AI's probably 5% of the way to total sentience, and with exponential growth working, that'll prolly take \~10 years.
inzyte@reddit
Your brain tumor is growing exponentially
DoubleAssembly@reddit
Humans fucked off to another planet and left the dumbest ones here, it took them a few thousand years to learn how to smash rocks together and the rest is history.
FunCryptographer7625@reddit
That is literally the story of the 2112 album by rush
Ardoriccardo00@reddit
Rush mentioned?!
FunCryptographer7625@reddit
Ardoriccardo00@reddit
Cjhaemweys@reddit
That is an absolute unit of a thumb there, lad
FunCryptographer7625@reddit
uuuh thanks? 😂
OutrageousFanny@reddit
You should start selling thumbs online
ChrisTheCoolBean@reddit
Only Thumbs
bjklol2@reddit
big fan of 6969
19920821@reddit
I guess I have to listen the whole album now
itskobold@reddit
My dawgs all in this thread you love to see it
GNIHTYUGNOSREP@reddit
Bruh I thought you were holding that at first like wtf is up with your hands!
Ardoriccardo00@reddit
Damn, I would take a picture of my vinyl of 2112 but I'm outside.
TrungusMcTungus@reddit
What can this strange device be? When I touch it, it gives forth a sound
PaulieXP@reddit
Also sort of BSG and Stargate. Tho in the case of Stargate I believe humanity started somewhere else(maybe Pegasus), colonised Earth.. then left again(while also leaving behind the dumb fucks who couldn’t ascend)
HungNordic@reddit
Those lyrics are such Randian garbage
Beamo1080@reddit
There’s a lot more than just Ayn Rand influence I think. Yeah, it’s there, but I also feel Orwell influence as well as general enlightenment sentiments about freedom and the value of self-determination.
Denouncing it as Randian is playing into a simplistic mindset, as if the nascent poetry of what would go on to be an incredibly prolific artist ought to be reduced to simple influences. A lot of bookish teenage boys find themselves enthralled by the simplistic ideas of Ayn Rand at one time or another. Why demonize it?
HungNordic@reddit
They dedicated the whole album to Ayn Rand, it's on the credits of the record, I like the album but the lyrics are dumb, something Peart grew out of eventuelly
FunCryptographer7625@reddit
I also think Taylor Swift is garbage but that doesn't mean I have to be an asshole about it
Jenkinswarlock@reddit
I love that album but I’ve never taken the time to think about what it’s actually saying? I just liked the music
Cultural-Company282@reddit
The protagonist goes from figuring out how to tune a guitar to playing Rush in two minutes. I hate that guy.
Notorik@reddit
lordtyranis@reddit
And one of the hitchhikers guides books I think?
TsunamiCatCakes@reddit
literally stellar blade
Malvastor@reddit
Common misperception, modern humans descend from another planet that sent all their useless hairdressers and telephone sanitizers here, who wound up displacing the very similar natives who'd been doing screwall for the last 190K years.
Atreigas@reddit
That explains a lot about people today.
BadHairDayToday@reddit
So this is called the great leap in Antropology. Why did anatomically identical humans only start excibiting complex human behavior 50k years ago? There are several explanations for it. My favorite is the Snake cult hypothesis: https://www.vectorsofmind.com/p/the-snake-cult-of-consciousness-two
Nomgol@reddit
There are still humans today who know nothing but smash rock.
Gary_FucKing@reddit
Huh, now that you mention it OP’s mom does look a bit like dwayne johnson.
destroyerOfTards@reddit
I feel like smashing rocks would be very painful
_Addi-the-Hun_@reddit
and as soon as we have a vacation what do we do? swim and fish and smack rocks ( or do the same in a video game)
matijoss@reddit
"They swim and they fish but that's what i do all year long" -some guy from the congo
thirdtryacharm@reddit
Somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me
DrummerDesigner6791@reddit
And some of them are my colleagues in a tech company 😞
no_4@reddit
Smash rock. Agile. Stakeholders. Committee. Agile. Smash rock.
Holy_Santa_ClausShit@reddit
PI planning makes me want to smash my head with rocks
no_4@reddit
There should be a ratio:
[How easy is it to make this sound good to incompetents]
/
[How easy is this to implement well]
Above a certain number and it's a very dangerous framework.
angelis0236@reddit
Daily scrum. Smash rock.
Holy_Santa_ClausShit@reddit
And they get the same vote weight as everyone else.
OfficialHelpK@reddit
Some people say a man is made out of mud
SethDerOger@reddit
One even got president
Wannabedankestmemer@reddit
People working at CERN
segbepaszujly@reddit
Rock and stone!
RaiderCat_12@reddit
ROCK AND STONE BROTHER
Absolutemehguy@reddit
RobouteGorillaman@reddit
Artist?
PandaWithOpinions@reddit
the weather, it's the fucking weather
JustHereForSmu_t@reddit
Why would mathematicians invent a function which is just 0 all the time and then gets big at the end? But if you zoom in it looks just like the big function?
Something doesnt add up
Kewlhotrod@reddit
Oh look, another fake graph from big-math.
We all know this shit is just made up, you're not fooling us.
Jerafty@reddit
This but unironically. Genuinely.
Esava@reddit
You were never good at math or logical thinking, right?
Jerafty@reddit
You were never good at thinking for yourself, right? But you sure seem good at being a sheep and listening to what the government tells you to believe like a good boy.
Poro41@reddit
Please let ts be ragebait 🙏🙏🙏
SuperFluousNation@reddit
Math was invented by the Commies to make American children gay
TheVoice106point7@reddit
r/suddenlymathematicians
hey_free_rats@reddit
Dumb and unrealistic. How can little number go to big so fast.
pmmeuranimetiddies@reddit
why didn’t you just write log base 80 on that graph
JustHereForSmu_t@reddit
lucky me: exp(x-80) = exp(x)/exp(80)
thr33beggars@reddit
My ancestors got to spend all day smashing rocks, eating mammoths, and fucking that sweet dinosaurussy that was just begging for the dick, and I have to go to work so I can eat. It’s a damn shame.
destroyerOfTards@reddit
I feel like the dinosaurussy would fit multiple ancestors because of you know...the size of it...
DaHerv@reddit
DevilPixelation@reddit
i_eat_cockroaches69@reddit
FuciMiNaKule@reddit
I gently open the door
RaiderCat_12@reddit
I gently spread open the dinosaurussy
the_mememachine4@reddit
Are you higher than Trex pussy
RaiderCat_12@reddit
Absolutely
TheVoice106point7@reddit
Kewlhotrod@reddit
It's a dinosaur, be rough.
ILookAfterThePigs@reddit
I swiftly get on the floor
EtteRavan@reddit
I spy everybody doing the dinosaur
Scottish_Whiskey@reddit
When in Rome
Jazz4ursoul@reddit
Heyy Macarena

angelis0236@reddit
beegproblemzzz@reddit
misterpickles69@reddit
ChangingMonkfish@reddit
Jurassic Pork
OoopsWhoopsie@reddit
TheVoice106point7@reddit
Dark-Lark@reddit
Folks, look at this branch. It's a tremendous branch. Maybe the best branch anyone’s ever seen.
TheVoice106point7@reddit
TheVoice106point7@reddit
dreamingtree1855@reddit
This is just like the wanna be communists who think they’ll be kicking back in their utopia and never realize they’d be the ones swinging the axes and digging with shovels… how the fuck do you think they got the mammoth?
Sudden_Violinist1054@reddit
I hope they blakclist you from Jurassic park
Scottish_Whiskey@reddit
And lose out on the infinite income generator? I think not
Sudden_Violinist1054@reddit
Scottish_Whiskey@reddit
Modern life has deprived me of my dinopussy and I will never stop being mad about that
HomemQueijo@reddit
Scottish_Whiskey@reddit
Ledairyman@reddit
they also lived to 30 at most
floatfloatjam@reddit
You already sold me
Lizard-Pope@reddit
I’m gonna have to “ackthually” here, but that’s not the case. Infant mortality skews the number to a massive degree. If you lived to adulthood you were looking at ~65 years.
Please read this with the heaviest lisp and breathing possible, like the biggest neckbeard you ever did see is saying it while pushing up his glasses and adjusting his fedora.
Kewlhotrod@reddit
STOP USING MY LIKENESS EVERYWHERE
HellkerN@reddit
Yes but they slayed more mammoth poon in those 30 years than we do in our long lifetimes.
WintersbaneGDX@reddit
JCarterPeanutFarmer@reddit
Is he dead yet?
hagamablabla@reddit
God won't take him and the devil doesn't want him.
sample-name@reddit
Danny-Fr@reddit
Hey most likely dinosaurs had a cloaca. Just saying, so do chickens. Juuuust saying.
LudicrousStead@reddit
r3volts@reddit
Is that Darcy lol
OoopsWhoopsie@reddit
IHSV1855@reddit
baz4k6z@reddit
I mean, smashing rocks and hunting mammoth represented quite a lot of work, and cavemen probably had their lot of gooners back then too. You'd fit perfectly in both timelines.
poopcockshit@reddit
Connect_Ad_3361@reddit
Well tbf to us within those 200,000 years we almost been wiped out a couple of times. And advancements are exponential.
impsworld@reddit
Something doesn’t add up
AtomicMonkeyTheFirst@reddit
Look up gobekli tepe, we were still up to some strange & interesting shit when we were cavemen.
Laxhoop2525@reddit
It just doesn’t seem feasible that it took 190k years for humanity to build up a population large enough to begin forming civilizations.
If I were being extremely generous, I could see it taking tens of thousands of years for humans to notice that seeds grow into food, as hunter-gatherers likely didn’t stay in one place long enough to see the seeds grow, but not 190k years.
If I were being generous, I could also see it taking 40k years for humanity to reach a population of 10,000, even though through simply math and accounting for mass death from people not knowing what’s dangerous, that number could have been achieved in only 20 generations, which, if we are being stupid and assuming early humans were all waiting until they were 30 to have kids, would only take 600 years.
These numbers just don’t add up. The only way they add up is if you assume that for 190k years, every human was a knuckle-dragging lobotomite who never looked at the world around them.
I have a higher opinion of humanity than to just assume they never noticed that seeds grow into plants for almost 200k years.
And I keep mentioning noticing plants growing specifically, because once humans realize seeds grow plants, there would obviously be only a short amount of time until the first farms, then the first towns, and then the first civilizations.
“But it obviously wouldn’t work, they didn’t know about soil PH, water, sunlight, manure, etc”, do you honestly think that for 190k years there was not at least one autistic 1st farmer who was dead set on making it work, if he saw it could happen?
HamberderHelper18@reddit
Progress builds upon itself. Your argument has the fallacy of assuming that progress paused and then resumed evenly across disparate populations. When in reality even the tribes that made progress had multiple setbacks over generations or killed each other. We started from scratch more often than not at the beginning because the hardest part of growth is leaving the baseline.
liluzibrap@reddit
I've never stopped to consider it for anything but working out, but "The hardest part of growth is leaving the baseline" is true for anything in life when you think about it
inTsukiShinmatsu@reddit
exponential growth...
if you think like that we've actually been just messing around till industrial revolution, or arguably till the proliferation of computers
Malvastor@reddit
We're still just messing around until we crack FTL.
liluzibrap@reddit
You really think humanity is gonna get its shit together when we achieve FTL travel? I think we're just gonna mess around even harder
untakenu@reddit
One innovation is often all it takes to get the ball rolling.
A caveman wasn't unable to create solar power, there are just millions of hours of combined work and development that have to happen beforehand
It's a pyramid of knowledge.
Sen-oh@reddit
I have a scary thought experiment for you:
Imagine things continue as they are. Tech continues to 2x every other month, elons neurolink tech explodes in popularity, stability and safety; everyone gets one. Why wouldn't you? You get ambient access to the internet and you get an internal mental browser you can use in the background while doing other physical things. It'll be life changing in the moment.
Now move forward a bit more; maybe a couple generations. This tech is now the norm, and similar to a child's first phone, many parents have their kids chipped during middle or elementary school. Eventually it's weirder not to have one.
Over time, we'll learn more about ai, with the ultimate goal of successfully creating a physical harness that can reliably hold and power a human mind. By then we're all chipped so it'll be an easy and reasonable transition to a point where you no longer have to die; you're already connected to the wider network at all times, why not just upload yourself?
Once being uploaded before death becomes the norm, that's it; we're over.
You see, once everyone is connected and we have a hive mind, and once we have most of us there rather than out here physically, you put yourself on a path toward this singularity moment. When everyone's one. People who study the ancient religions and find evidence that humans have some brain organs that are shriveled useless vestiges these days(think appendix) that people seemed to think gave everyone psychic powers or at least a way to be actually tangibly connected to everyone else.
And once we're all one, that means there's only one person left in the world. And now that you're locked in your black box(hard drive), you're alone forever. So what do you do? You simulate life, obviously. That was the least boring thing you remember. You make yourself a little sims world to play dolls in. You practice leaning into each person and pretending to be them; you get better at it, and eventually you can maintain multiple millions of people at once. You even added little bits of code to mess with your memory while you're piloting each one so you can't remember who you are while you're playing.
Unfortunately you only really have the data for how things went for you irl. So no matter how many times you redo the sim it follows the same pattern: about 10k years of just life. And then everything starts falling apart and we race headlong toward our digital end.
According to some historians, we may be on the 5th or 6th such cycle, now. There's supposed to only be 7, but that has nothing to do with us; we'll prolly find out in another 10k years.
Atomkekstime@reddit
200 k years only to see the world dying. Not with a war but with fanfares of work that has already been done, without anyone except for me being ready to improve on it.
_eleutheria@reddit
Yes it does. Watch any video on youtube of people making makeup, tableware, or other stuff utilizing ancient techniques. It has a million different little steps and it makes you wonder how the fuck anyone came up with it. Well, lots of bored generations did it over millennia.
NoobForBreakfast31@reddit
It all adds up perfectly. We got long distance electronic communication in the last ~100 years. We got computers in the last ~50 years. We got commercialised ai (chatbot) in the last ~4 years. Technology is progressing exponentially fast. This is a speedrun to self destruction which is a reasoning for the Fermi paradox. Life finds a way to speedrun planet destruction before expanding into space.
TearOpenTheVault@reddit
The Fermi Paradox is a thought experiment. The idea of universal filters is similarly, an answer to a thought experiment. We don’t know if it’s true and assuming that all life is destined to wipe itself out is nonsense.
BitsAndBobs304@reddit
You say destined, I say achieves.
r/efilism
TearOpenTheVault@reddit
Actual efilism is one of the stupidest philosophies I've ever heard of. The universe will get there in the end. We're here to enjoy the ride.
BitsAndBobs304@reddit
Yes the animals eaten alive and the dementia patients are having a marvelous time, only surpassed by bone cancer, eye parasites, and people on the receiving end of war.
TearOpenTheVault@reddit
Oooh, so deep and meaningful, all life is suffering, ooooooh. Cringe.
BitsAndBobs304@reddit
Ooh so deep and meaningful, countless animals and human beings suffer, life is wonderful who cares. Cringe.
NoobForBreakfast31@reddit
Well. We're all allowed to speculate. And whether it's true or not, we have to see and only time will tell.
PostacPRM@reddit
Swear to jeebas some of y'all are actively rooting for the world to destroy itself.
landmanpgh@reddit
Read this whole thread. We kinda deserve it.
B3kindr3wind1026@reddit
There’s a difference between wanting something to happen and seeing the writing on the wall of something that will probably happen that you don’t have the power to change and accepting it.
NoobForBreakfast31@reddit
No, tbh I'd rather the world thrive but the boomers in government are making us think otherwise.
Powerism@reddit
It’s definitely interesting to consider how many speedruns to planet destruction we’ve already had that resulted in a giant reset to smashing rocks.
Tommy2255@reddit
You can't really have an advanced civilization collapse without leaving really really obvious evidence. Think about what our world would look like if all of humanity literally disappeared and came back a thousand years later. Plastic would be completely untouched. But even steel tools that happened to be buried would still provide evidence; imagine a buried shovel where the shovel head had almost but not quite completely rotted away while the handle was preserved in an anaerobic bog. The screws that hold on the head would be among the best preserved parts, with the metal embedded into the wood and protected, and would show clear evidence of the use of replaceable interchangeable parts, from the precision and regularity of their construction, which in turn would prove the existence of large scale manufacturing. Easily accessible mineral veins would be notably depleted compared to what would be expected from natural processes, as well as deeper mineral resources that could only be accessed by heavy machinery, even if the machinery itself were absent and the mines collapsed, while unusual combinations of minerals would be found in former landfills, such as copper from wires being found in places that makes no geological sense for it to occur naturally. Writing samples, still visible in carved stone for example in grave stones that happened to be well preserved, would show similar languages showing up in completely different parts of the world, and also similar funerary practices, including a shared calendar system, all of which proves the existence of a tightly connected global culture, which in turn provides evidence of travel and communication technologies.
The list goes on and on. The existence of a globe spanning technologically advanced civilization would provide so much overwhelming evidence of its existence no matter how much time had passed.
Powerism@reddit
Unless the advanced civilization occurred somewhere else!
Radical-Efilist@reddit
You're absolutely right, but the scale is off - even hundreds of millions to billions of years into the future, there would still be a global layer of exotic metals and weird minerals resulting from metamorphosed plastics and miscellaneous garbage.
this sort of global anomaly already exists, for instance the extreme volcanism of the Great Dying 251 million years ago produced global spikes of normally buried metals like Nickel and Mercury.
LadenifferJadaniston@reddit
In the year 2525
Name_Taken_Official@reddit
None that we've been able to actually find evidence for
ReturnRadio@reddit
I think about this at times. That our nature is to grow and expand. But at a certain point this strength becomes a weakness. In order for us or any similar species to make it past the point where there's no room or resources to expand any further, they must make decisions that go directly against their nature.
From an objective perspective, population control might solve this at least for a time. But the paradox is we are psychologically programmed to increase our numbers.
I don't really have an opinion, I just think it's interesting. You would think that maybe out there are some species that could overcome such hurdles as curbing exponential growth.
The_Bygone_King@reddit
Firmi makes a lot of assumptions about the likelihood of intelligent life and the scope of the universe.
It's important to keep in mind that we as Humans are hard locked to a specific section of the universe, as the expansion of the observable universe outpaces our ability to travel to those locations to a point. Likewise, the universe is absolutely massive. The scale of planets that can support a space faring civilization akin to ours is comparably pretty sparse, and the Universe at this point in our existence is relatively young in the totality of potential for life to develop long term.
The Fermi paradox makes a lot of assumptions about "infinity" that just don't apply, such as "infinite time". The time from the start of the universe is very much fixed, and the point at which planets began to stabilize is quite distant from the start of the universe.
DUBToster@reddit
190k years of smashing rock but only 10k years to talking sand ?
Opening_Ad7004@reddit
Lots of gage rape
HiddenVisage@reddit
Progress often happens at exponential growth
ljutabrlja@reddit
Onecell for a billion year? Why??????
MobiusNaked@reddit
Agriculture basically- once we could stay in one place, grow the population and specialise it all changed.
BirdyWeezer@reddit
Exactly, humans not starving to death and spending all their time hunting gave us more time to develop. Also the ice age fucked us over for a VERY long time.
Yuri909@reddit
400k years and we were literally never cave men.
[Has useless anthropology degree]
Wurschtbieb@reddit
Me still smash rock
rock usefull
BirdyWeezer@reddit
Rust players man…
Zozakann@reddit
According to Rutger Bregman’s “Humankind: a Hopeful History”, humans knew and tribes today still know that you can grow and harvest things. They were smart enough to not do it, since that would require too much time. However, one time a place in the Fertile Crescent had very good lands and animals, and people settled there to do agriculture where nature did most of the work. However, over time too many people were born and the animals and food ran out. The knowledge of hunter gatherer society had been lost. Inner settlements didn’t allow other people to come. They had no choice but to expand.
The book then argues that for most of its time, civilization was a disaster. Only in the past 200 years we made so much progress and solved most problems civilization brought upon us (rampant plagues, poor diet, patriarchy, slavery, authoritarianism, etc.)
Perhaps that’s why we don’t see alien civilizations in the universe. We fell into a trap and perhaps may have never started civilization without it. Perhaps they didn’t fall for such a trap, or there never has been such a trap on their planets.
Paul6334@reddit
A not insubstantial part of that was under a climate too unstable to support agriculture, which is really the starting point for everything else.
izza123@reddit
Technological advancement is exponential. One advancement makes it easier to make other advancements and so on.
sassydodo@reddit
progress isn't linear
you need a critical mass of people for certain technologies as well, as all the tech is built upon previous tech
NoStrangerToDanger@reddit
I like how we diminish every single advancement between rocks and space. Incremental progression on how we understand the world lead to space. The culmination of all human intelligence up to that point. Ffs. If your too fn lazy to learn history play civ and look at the science tree see the progression.
IM_INSIDE_YOUR_HOUSE@reddit
Exponential discovery fueled by the knowledge of previous discoveries.
TheVoice106point7@reddit
hornwalker@reddit
Technological growth is telescoping. Things are developing faster now than ever before and if AI lives up to or even a fraction its promise its going to go even faster.
LucasButtercups@reddit
Anon should learn to independently invent smelting with no prior knowledge of what metal even is, while also being occupied with surviving. Better yet: Could anon make gunpowder right now without being told the recipe?
Like guys, paper was invented like 1000 years ago, It seems super obvious but why in the fuck would I soak plant pulp and smash it together if wax/papyrus works just fine
LucasButtercups@reddit
PomegranateHot9916@reddit
first of all we were never cavemen.
caves just preserve our marks better.
secondly. known history isn't really 10k years. more like 7k
thirdly people didn't exclusively smash rocks up to the boundary where history starts
lots of stuff has to happen between learning to shape rocks and inventing writing.
also shaping rocks is a very sophisticated skill, and most certainly not the only skill people developed in pre-history.
indeed the artifacts we have from neolithic prehistory does show a progression in sophistication of stone tools.
but stones is just mostly what is left to find, they also shaped wood and other plants.
they changed their environments, just as we do today.
they made instruments.
a LOT of stuff was going on for those 190k years.
and as we see from just the past 500 years. technology speeds up over time.
we went from killing eachother with swords for two thousand+ years. but once we had steam engines and steel mills. it was only a few centuries until we put human feet on the moon and brought them back home alive.
but you don't question that do you, because the records are there. no records 10k years ago.
hopingtogetanupvote@reddit
Warm_Weakness_2767@reddit
Humans have likely gone through multiple cataclysms that reset humanity back to the stone ages. There are likely more advanced versions of our species that existed within the past 200k years if you consider the 10k year timeline from writing to technology that we’ve been on.
Many people think that aliens and nonhuman intelligences have helped humanity get to the point we are at today because they are us from the past and from the future.
rs6677@reddit
If these more advanced civilizations existed, we'd see something left behind from them.
Warm_Weakness_2767@reddit
Because we are so smart..?
DN052001@reddit
Because we have eyes
Zephit0s@reddit
Warm_Weakness_2767@reddit
Wait until you find out how old the majority of the world’s forests are.
protokhan@reddit
Bro you gotta stop watching those dubious late night discovery channel shows.
TRUMPARUSKI@reddit
Yeah there’s basically 250,000 years of no progression whatsoever
darthmaui728@reddit
I'm just happy I got to live in the same timeline as Rudy Giuliani
b2hcy0@reddit
ech poleshift - solarstorm - combination resets advanced technology, advanced knowledge and highly specialized professions get obsolete as the task is to ensure survival for about a decade or more while all electronics are fried. by the time its ensured that making food by hand works, knowledge has died out or makes no sense as the required infrastructure is still missing. the rest is good night stories that turn into fairytales.
Forsaken-Ad-6345@reddit
We are the three body problem. We just dont know it.
hyperblob1@reddit
You ever play tycoon games? It's like when you reach then end and you can't lose money to save your life
drtij_dzienz@reddit
There was a whole movie about this
av123h@reddit
No that movie was made so Ric Flair would have entrance music.
OzzRamirez@reddit
palmerry@reddit
When he dies I hope his epitaph just says "Wooh!"
quackityquack35@reddit
Is the significance of fire not taught in school anymore?
ReturnRadio@reddit
The advent of recording knowledge and building permanent structures really helped the next generations from starting from nothing
annonimity2@reddit
It takes alot of expensive trial and error to figure out agriculture, once you do you save massive ammounts of time that can then be spent figuring out other things. Once you have time on your hands you can save even more time by creating a written and spoken language, then you can accumulate knowledge over generations. After that it just keeps growing faster and faster and faster.
Chris_El_Deafo@reddit
Anatomically modern humans developed 300-200k years ago. About 70-45k years ago we see evidence for a psychological shift occurring in which we advanced rapidly into new parts of the world, began producing art and musical instruments, and invented new tools never seen before (atlatl, bow, and pottery in some places). Yes the agricultural revolution was a big event but it had about 60,000 years of lead-up.
PastelZephyr@reddit
We hadn't fucked the dumb ones out of existence yet.
airfryerfuntime@reddit
Some parts of humanity didn't even progress past that until the last couple hundred years.
Arstanishe@reddit
thank you for all the comments, now I see that anon is just uneducated.
I was baffled, like "huh? what doesn't add up?"
StandardN02b@reddit
10k years ago Jakub invented white people.
tayzzerlordling@reddit
did you know china almost had an industrial revolution in the 1300s?
theres always possibilities that we dont have the foresight to make happen
Zayfield@reddit
It is believed among the scientist that at some point human population on earth did not exceed thousand, and that explains why our gene pool is so poor comparing to other species. Caveman had so much land and so little food, they spent most of their live expanding and migrating. At one point, caveman developed cultural net. Like you know where other tribes live and, if you wanted to, you could interact with them and commit cultural exchange. Considering how vast our planet is, it is no wonder it took 190k years to finally be forced to settle down and invent agriculture due to all other lands being mostly already being inhabited by other tribes. And for agriculture be spread via these cultural nets
marcodol@reddit
anon found out exponential growth does in fact follow an exponential curve
Crzy710@reddit
We havent visited mars btw
Correct_Inside1658@reddit
We really fucked up once we invented agriculture
Microgolfoven_69@reddit
This posts could've been avoided if anon paid more attention in history class
Kaplsauce@reddit
No, then Anon would have just found something else to be dumb about
My_Nama_Jeff1@reddit
This is all covered in history of economies courses btw
PortaSponge@reddit
Anyonengot an hd copy of the photo in the pic?
Beamo1080@reddit
Year 50,000 BC: Cavemen smash rocks together
Year 2026 AD: “scientists” smash infinitely small rocks together at high speeds in particle accelerators
RewRose@reddit
exponents
tricerotops69@reddit
I love smashing rocks
MerkDingle@reddit
According to Bob Lazar, human DNA has been modified by extraterrestrials 60-something times. Call me crazy, but I think Lazar is credible.
This-Profession-6601@reddit
Compound interest.
Primalbuttplug@reddit
Cooked meat was the evolutionary push.
Rick-burp-Sanchez@reddit
Yeah, the closer we get to nuclear Armageddon, the more I'm sure we've been here before and just obliterated ourselves down to that bottleneck 10k population we were at \~70,000 years ago.
RDUKE7777777@reddit
What doesn’t add up is that we collectively ignore that early humans had culture. The churches and enlightened Europeans could not stomach the idea that they aren’t the bringer of civilisation and culture. Luckily science is catching up now.
pmmeuranimetiddies@reddit
Inventing agriculture and subsequently written language in response to the end of the ice age probably helped speed things up a lot.
dionysios_platonist@reddit
Probably because the population has skyrocketed. Like 7% of humans who have ever existed are alive today and around half of all humans were born around 2000 years ago
Atreigas@reddit
As technology advanced, we've had more leeway to experiment and more people to come up with idea. Every new invention made it easier for the next one.
The end result is exponential growth.
kyngslinn@reddit
Civilization builds upon itsself. You can't get a lot done when basic survival takes up most of the day and staying in one place would cause overhuntiing. Once agriculture was figured out, we had the time and means to try things and actually use/pass on the discoveries made from them.
UncleVolk@reddit
That's simply because the world changed completely with very few things, notably the wheel, writing systems, and metallurgy. From there most of the innovations that followed for the next centuries were much easier.
Judah_Earl@reddit
According to woke science, Whites only came into existence about 10,000 years ago.
od3795486159601@reddit
The better your technology the faster technology pogresses.
Le_ed@reddit
MFs learning exponentials for the first time.