UFO skeptic? Perfect – this piece isn’t specifically about aliens. It’s about what happens when reality breaks your models and your institutions freeze because they’ve only ever practiced being right. The experts most certain this is all nonsense are building a civilization that’s never rehearsed being fundamentally wrong, and when the next paradigm shift hits (AGI, physics breakthroughs, or something we haven’t imagined), that rigidity will be catastrophic. Read why ontological disruption prep matters regardless of what you believe about the phenomena.
LittleKachowski on
I don’t know where this idea that alien confirmation would just annihilate the world comes from, like it would destroy our understanding of reality. Germ theory didn’t destroy the world when it disproved miasma theory. Evolution didn’t destroy the world when it disproved spontaneous creation.
If we find aliens, even if they’re among us, we would be pretty excited about it, but we would accept it as fact and learn more about it. There are tons and tons of people whose career includes the pipe dream of being the one to find aliens. We’re ready to learn, and we’ve been ready to learn for generations now.
PaddyMayonaise on
“Ontological shock” is a completely made up thing. Aliens being real would have literally barely any impact on anything outside of an alien invasion.
If they confirmed aliens were real tomorrow it would be out of the news by Friday.
golden_monkey_and_oj on
This article seems to conflate skepticism with willful ignorance and naivete
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UFO skeptic? Perfect – this piece isn’t specifically about aliens. It’s about what happens when reality breaks your models and your institutions freeze because they’ve only ever practiced being right. The experts most certain this is all nonsense are building a civilization that’s never rehearsed being fundamentally wrong, and when the next paradigm shift hits (AGI, physics breakthroughs, or something we haven’t imagined), that rigidity will be catastrophic. Read why ontological disruption prep matters regardless of what you believe about the phenomena.
I don’t know where this idea that alien confirmation would just annihilate the world comes from, like it would destroy our understanding of reality. Germ theory didn’t destroy the world when it disproved miasma theory. Evolution didn’t destroy the world when it disproved spontaneous creation.
If we find aliens, even if they’re among us, we would be pretty excited about it, but we would accept it as fact and learn more about it. There are tons and tons of people whose career includes the pipe dream of being the one to find aliens. We’re ready to learn, and we’ve been ready to learn for generations now.
“Ontological shock” is a completely made up thing. Aliens being real would have literally barely any impact on anything outside of an alien invasion.
If they confirmed aliens were real tomorrow it would be out of the news by Friday.
This article seems to conflate skepticism with willful ignorance and naivete