Not exact matches
Human purpose would be futile if
efficient causation did not maintain stable patterns of predictability in the
world.
In the strangely
efficient world of
human trafficking, there are countries of origin, such as Ukraine, Cambodia and Nigeria, where desperate conditions render people vulnerable to enslavement.
If Harvati is right, the last Neanderthals may have starved to death on the fringes of Europe as more
efficient groups of modern
human hunters invaded their territory and ultimately became masters of the
world.
While this process may sound overwhelming, moving from a diagnosis to treatment in the canine
world is very swift and
efficient in comparison to
human health care and oncology.
I don't understand why a pet insurance company can be so
efficient, yet in the
human world, things are so screwed up.
Obviously, rebound and backfire effects associated with the use of better and more
efficient energy technologies in the developing
world will bring enormous improvements in
human well - being with them and some have suggested that for this reason, discussing the energy and climate implications of rebound effects in these contexts is somehow out of bounds.
We do prattle on about how the bicycle is the
world's most energy
efficient vehicle, but just how fast can a
human go on a bicycle?
In a
world that faces growing food insecurity, the best and most
efficient response is to worry less about production and more about addressing the gaps in our current distribution system — primarily, why an estimated 40 percent of all calories produced for
human consumption fails to reach mouths and bellies.
We
humans are also different from bacteria in that we have
efficient means of transporting and distributing resources also known as markets, we can innovate and find new ways of doing things, and though we are in a petri dish in the sense that yes the
world is finite, it is an awfully big petri dish (despite our admittedly large population) and we are not confined to consuming Agar.
But the robots are too good at their jobs: they interpret their directive by travelling from
world to
world (and eventually Earth) to enforce happiness: replacing
humans in every endeavour, lobotomizing those who object and «seem unhappy,» and eventually subjugating all of humanity — not through malice, but through the
efficient mechanical enforcement of «guarding from harm.»