submitted by Clubberlang to Mildlyinteresting 3.8 yearsJul 21, 2021 21:56:54 ago (+9/-0) (web.archive.org)
https://web.archive.org/web/20210722015216/https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/worldnews/14473797/time-traveller-visited-future-tiktok-human-extinction/
DaijoubuYabai 0 points 3.8 years ago
It's not a hoax, because it's not meant to be believed. It's just a short dystopian sci-fi piece.
It's no more of a hoax than movies such as Soylent Green. It's just a lot more low-budget.
That having been said, I personally don't think that the human race has much of a chance for long-term survival ... although I think that 2027 is way too soon for our final demise.
On the whole, the human race has a very hard time distinguishing facts from fantasies, delusions, and lies, and only a small minority of humans have reasonable critical thinking skills.
We are creating systems which are more and more complicated and more and more dangerous, and which are decreasingly fault tolerant. This means that we need greater and greater application of logic and rational thinking in order to keep these systems from failing.
But given that humanity's thinking abilities are not improving, the chances of dangerous and lethal catastrophes keep increasing.
I give the human race a few hundred years at most, and much less in the worst case.