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Then we don't really have anything to discuss.

I'm getting paid by the number of comments I make about nuclear power from my friends at big coal and gas. I just made another dollar with this comment.

Sure thing chief, cost is very important when facing a global existential crisis. That's why global CO2 output is now on the rise because people asking for more nuclear power plant…

Nuclear solves all these problems and potentially buys enough time to figure out how to mitigate the worst effects of 2C+ degrees of warming which at this point is basically inevit…

Oh the irony.

I did not read the article because I'm an armchair expert on such matters.

The Flynn effect is now going in the opposite direction and I don't think it was a good indicator of intelligence anyway because intelligence is more than just IQ. [1] 1: https://n…

I don't think he's greedy either. He thinks connecting people over the internet is good and that just happens to be a very lucrative business.

How is advertising not about consumption? Facebook enables consumer activity so it's a consumer company. It does not build industrial robots or enable industrial production of any …

That wasn't the claim. The claim was about the effects of domestication on cognition and at least for dogs it is very obvious they are less intelligent than their non-domesticated …

That wasn't the argument. You seem to be saying that the increasing volume of digital information will require new cognitive adaptations and I'm saying that's not the case because …

I'm not a psychologist, I just play one on HN so I don't know but it's definitely weird that he keeps trying to use technology to replace reality.

I definitely have evidence that wolves are smarter than dogs. [1][2] You're welcome to nitpick but it's obvious that wolves are smarter than dogs. 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?…

This is a good point but it does seem like people consistently select for less intelligence because less intelligent animals are more tame and easier to control.

I don't think I have it backwards. I don't remember anything or know much about the world in general terms. I just know and remember enough key phrases for google to give me the an…

I don't know. That's a good question but most modern humans are essentially clones so I don't think there is going to be much difference. [1][2] 1: https://www.nationalgeographic.o…

And most of it has been offloaded to computers (big data, deep learning, etc). I don't think we're going to have "mentats" any time soon.

Ya, I also don't know if it's true or not. I was just making the point that an animal can domesticate itself by changing its environment and then adapting to the new environment in…

Because we no longer need to run away from predators and process information at the same rate we'd need to in a more wild enviornment. The survival pressures of our ancestral envir…

Good point.

It's possible for an animal to domesticate itself. This is one of the theories for how wolves were domesticated. It's not that humans did anything special to domesticate them but t…

Makes sense.