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I’ve thought about the way an excavator moves huge rocks and ant hills like they’re nothing. The driver doesn’t care about the ants, because he is focused on the construction site and staying on schedule. Maybe humans on Earth will one day be nothing more than an ant hill in the bucket of an excavator.
If super advanced aliens can carry out galaxy wide construction projects, one planet won’t matter at all.
It’s like one of those pitch meetings where the conversation goes something like this:
Well, at least some parts of you are outside the bone prison. Insects don’t have such luck, since the chitin is on the outside and everything else is permanently locked inside the exosekeleton. It’s even in the name: exo = outside. Jellyfish, octopuses, squids, worms, slugs, snails and some sea creatures are pretty lucky in this regard.
So, maybe Randall assumed that the nanobots had already devoured all the outer other planets completely before finally stopping with Earth.
To which the answer is: “As high as a kite… No, wait. Higher. A GPS satellite? No. Even higher. Voyager 1 should be about right.”
So, is this the right one? At least the colors match, but it doesn’t have any stripes.
Those orange and brown stripes remind me this Minecraft cat. Such a beautiful color.
Some popular sayings I’ve smashed together: “Don’t count your omelettes before putting all your eggs in one basket.”
Bonus saying: “We’ll burn that bridge when we come to it.”
A best selling author probably isn’t the best writing one. Actually, when the back cover of a book has various praises like that, I consider them a red flag.
Many highly praised business books like that are actually just mostly trash and useless fluff. Good books don’t necessarily get much fame or popularity.
Other people have already given the right answer, so I’ll give the wrong answer.
Kelvin Farad, a unit for measuring something exotic related to capacitance and absolute temperature…. Sounds like something you could use to measure the performance of a hyper-space jump gate in a sci-fi story.
Either that, or simply potassium fluoride. Seriously toxic stuff BTW.
Millionaires own land, commercial buildings, mansions, villas, stocks, bonds, Lamborghinis and yachts that can be pledged as collateral. Banks love to mitigate risks with assets that are easy to liquidate.
Those things are really intuitive, and anyone should be able to understand them. The digital world is completely different and alien, which makes it difficult to think about. People don’t understand it, so they can’t be expected to have a rational opinion about it.
Pro tip: you can also ride a pig that way.
You could be there too. Are you good at surviving through famine or avoiding violent people?
We’re working on those. Just a little bit more tyrannical dictatorship and a whole lot more smoke should do the trick.
In 2060s, people look back at the good old days of 2020s. Doomscrolling, AI generated images, brainrot, existential dread, LLMs, those were the days…
See what’s going on in European countries that haven’t used significant numbers of African slaves. You know, it’s possible to enslave your own population too. Anyway, there’s definitely racism in Europe, even though the history with regard to using African slaves is completely different. Nowadays, racists hate all foreigners regardless of skin color.
Actually, people seem to gravitate towards this weird sort of tribalism when the in-group and out-group are pretty arbitrary concepts. It doesn’t even have to be based on skin color, language or religion. People just hate other people because they were born in the wrong town.
If America never used any African slaves at all, normal human tribalism would still be there to mess things up. There would be groups based on arbitrary things that slang, facial features, dietary preferences, fashion choices etc. Racism wouldn’t disappear. It would just be aimed at some other group.
Also the incentives of this setup are pretty screwed up. The advertising agency gets money as long as they are able to convince the advertiser that their services are worth it. But how do you really measure that? Sure, we have lots of fancy tracking technology, but not all consumers click ads to buy stuff. Whats the role of those purchases? Who knows. The agency will undoubtedly claim that all the sales were a direct result of an advertising company, and they have every incentive to say that. Do they really have any incentive to be completely honest about the effectiveness of their ads. I doubt it.
I’m sorry, we are currently in a superposition of being simultaneously at home and elsewhere. If you’re here to sell something, the superposition will collapse into the state of not being at home. If you’re here to rob us, we definitely are at home and ready to call the cops.