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This cynicism isn't useful. You speak about how everyone wants to use every word against you, but your generalizations about people make me believe that you are the one looking for…

I don't aliens that could come here would recognize profit as something real. They would see us destroying the world to eat meat. To pointlessly travel at high speeds. To drive car…

I love living in small towns. Truly, I do. I lived in towns ranging from 2k to 10k, and like 90% of it is great. But avoiding police is essential for people like me who even have s…

I want to be a techno optimist, and my feelings are that the potential that tech could be an enormous positive utility for humanity. This falls apart not because of tech, but becau…

Their system is designed to push engagement. My guess is that COVID conspiracies generated this engagement, and their system automatically pushed it to the top. We already know tha…

Engagement. In fact, IMO, trying to achieve engagement should be illegal psychological experimentation on humans, but I'm an outlier.

This winter in my neck of the woods I hear a lot of people saying "oh, what great weather this year", because it's warm and without snow. If they had taken enough math to understan…

I think there are so many cultural pathways that lead to anti climate science today (and anti-vaxx, etc.) that it's impossible to list them all. Generally they feed narcissism, and…

To sum up another comment: it's cultural, not biological. Race is not a useful scientific guideline for any kind of scientific study. For example: there is as much biological diver…

This tendency is not necessarily human. There are enormous numbers of humans disinterested in control of others, or their environment, etc. Those who want control might suggest oth…

I'll answer. I have limited myself to vegan food for the last 17 years or so. Buy good cookbooks. Bring your own food to things. That basically sums up our success sticking with it…

Lacking evidence otherwise, I would say that we have to assume the internal experience of most life with central nervous systems are remarkably similar to ours, because we are rema…

The difference between the bison and beef cows is that the bison lived longer lives than the beef cows today. Growing new animals vs. maintaining a population has significantly dif…

I think we should fill most elected positions basically at random, and eliminate the presidency. Populations make great quantitative judgements, but not qualitative. It seems that …

It's great to have a note system where you can get general information about a subject. However, such a system will not encourage you to read and recollect the information on a reg…

We already have the language to describe someone who claims an expertise in a knowledge area without the study necessary to be an actual expert: dilettante. And that's all that we'…

This ignores data that shows how many older people retired, and how large that effect is. Sum up the number of people who died, were injured, retired, our found better work, and it…

If I were a leader of a country that engaged economically with the US, I would be less concerned with the use of the dollar for UBI than it's current use, which is too enrich a sma…

My point is, what does it serve to build tanks? If the goal is to protect "our nation", then we are serving the abstractions. If you take a "command economy" and tell it to feed th…

A "command economy", or even "China", are still abstractions. Arguably, your points further prove mine.

Until human society stops serving abstractions (like money) over things that are real, then real things will continually face consequence. These will still over into our lives in a…

I actually believe that a small percentage of people want to climb the hierarchy. Based on books I've read, finding meaning in their work, either locally (how it helps the company)…

I believe that the proper response to this is to limit the percentage of hospital wards that can be devoted to COVID 19 cases, as the main effect of low vaccination rates is that t…

I often hear a thought process to the effect of: > Why learn something in depth when it can just be looked up? And the answer is that you can't daydream about something or think ab…

One of the most sure fire ways to accomplish nothing is too judge yourself based on your accomplishments. The other leading cause of procrastination, according to modern learning r…