Carl Sagan explains why humanity’s oldest illusion collapses the moment we look at the real scale of the universe.
“Here we are, like mites on a plum. And the plum is this little planet.”
“And the plum goes around an insignificant local star, the Sun.”
“That star is on the obscure outskirts of an ordinary galaxy, the Milky Way.”
“The Milky Way contains hundreds of billions of other stars.”
“And this galaxy is only one among billions of other galaxies that make up the universe.”
“Now it is beginning to look as if even this universe may be one of an enormous number, maybe even an infinite number, of other closed-off universes.”
“So the idea that we are central…”
“That the reason there is a universe is us, is pathetic.”
“We have to understand the universe that we really live in.”
“Some of our myths and some of our religion are inconsistent with it.”
“It is time to change the myth.”
Spawning from your plot is ready to go and soon even to be tested by our community. Ui Design will change for this though.
Next week a first glimpse of one of the regions of Europe. Details on this huge map is something the level design team is working on next.
I see a lot of doomposting about Bitcoin and crypto because crypto is somehow not the favourite toy of the market at the moment (AI stonks are).
I want to remind that crypto is not a toy, and it's serving its true purpose - self-sovereignty of every user, financial rails which are always on and do not stop working. Institutions are also into adopting something which has no clunky intermediaries now, so fundamentally we are better than ever.
AI is foundational, but it will go through its own valley of death: replacing humans by AI would put AI outputs into AI inputs, quality will degrade, and costs will grow exponentially to maintain it. Large companies who push AI everywhere aren't necessarily using it correctly, so they report some overly large expenses.
Both technologies - crypto and AI - are foundational. They are not the same thing though, and they are not competing with each other in principle.
Crypto is the future of Finance!
@cultra@Sedo Quote of the Day: "I love AI, use it every day, but it has gotten me in trouble, and I think it is going to be a big problem that everyone faces every day. Not double-checking your work. It makes you lazy." - Shane Cultra
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We are creating the map of Europe and although it looks good already, don't get me wrong here, we are doing the "rough" works first. Sculpting the landscape and adding landmarks. The floating island for instance in this scene will look different...