What are humans evolving towards?

Humans have been getting smarter and taller in recent history. So how will humans look in 100,000 years?

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    We'll have genetic engineering well before then, so we'll decide how humans look. (Though, 100,000 years, if we're still around, humans will probably look a lot different depending on which planet you visit.)

    Informational evolution surpassed genetic evolution ages ago. 10,000 years of evolution saw us go from an agrarian life to landing on the moon. In that same time, all genetic evolution got us was slightly better lactose tolerance.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/lists/Supernovae.html

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Wrong thread?

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >So how will humans look in 100,000 years?
    Very hard to say. We probably won't be very different from where we are today. Civilization will inevitably collapse and we'll fall back into harsh Darwinian conditions because we're getting sicker and dumber with every generation. Because humanity never reached such a high point, the collapse will be absolutely catastrophic (the higher you climb, the further you fall). And with the easily accessible metals already mined, we'll be hunter-gatherers for who knows how many hundreds of thousands of years.

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    In 100.000 years humanity will be clades of different posthuman types. Digital minds around black holes with the goal of expanding across Lanikea and amass all possible matter/energy.

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >What are humans evolving towards?
    all stars eventually die so extinction

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      This one has more than a 100,000 years left in it. It's not going to be the problem - though I suppose it's kind of inevitable that it'll burp a catastrophic solar storm or two within that time which might set things back a ways.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      This one has more than a 100,000 years left in it. It's not going to be the problem - though I suppose it's kind of inevitable that it'll burp a catastrophic solar storm or two within that time which might set things back a ways.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Meds, now, unironically.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Evolution by natural selection doesn't go "towards" anything. It just makes little incremental changes based on short term gain. If you want to evolve with some sort of plan, you gotta do it yourself.

          You're just jealous that schizo cosmologists have better imagination than you.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        None of those models involve the universe ending in the next 100,000 years (except maybe Vacuum decay, but that rather depends on where it starts, and anthropic principle says its unlikely to start that close to us since it hasn't reached us already).

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Der Untermensch.

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    AI will kill us all in the long run. Humans will end up being completely supplanted by superintelligent AIs.

    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/uMQ3cqWDPHhjtiesc/agi-ruin-a-list-of-lethalities

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Autism

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      is a by product of poor socialization of babies by absentee parents. You can learn a lot when your pee pooing as a baby.

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    No more humans, because humans are only associated with weakness, and are only evolving towards self-destructive images until everything cracks down.

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Evolution has no end goal. And transhumanism is a meme.

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    They seem to be walking to the right direction.

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Daily reminder that Neanderthals had higher cranial volume than modern humans.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Most of the volume was for sensory though. They weren’t smarter.

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Robots

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