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> so its hard to be sure Who is asking you to be sure in the first place? Why do you need this certainty? Farm animals need the comfort and stability of the farm to survive. They "…

Requires good stories/music/dance/mysticism. And rituals. And modernized pastoral care. This is why religions have survived the fall of kings, empires and nations. When system star…

They should feel some pressure but the language and framing is a bit over the top. These probs are not going to be solved without these kinds of systems. The UN's sustainability de…

More like "super talented engineers" will keep increasing cost of such projects until they get told this stuff doesn't generate revenue/cost cutting is happening, so work more on a…

Well ICQ/Yahoo/MSN messenger did not need AWS. The modern apps are full of unnecessary features not because anyone asks or even uses these features, but because its become easy for…

People have been thinking about this stuff for a long time. Here's a partial compilation of the answers - https://oyc.yale.edu/philosophy/phil-181 click sessions - lecture 12 for u…

Not really. Microbes have been around for a long time. And there are more of them today than there are stars in the sky. No intelligence required. Plus they change so fast that wha…

Gary Marcus is not changing the story financiers are telling each other about AI. He has been telling the same story without making a dent in their stories. And that is because he …

Cause he hasn't built anything or found a job since he sold his last company ages ago.

Paradise Lost

Donna Haraway's Chthulucene gets my vote.

All related to - Why do central banks exist? How did they emerge in every country of the world? What was the cycle before that happened?

Well not surprising. National security/national infra is involved. Private companies will not fund/build nukes, missiles, aircraft carriers, fighter jets etc if there aren't certai…

It's just middle men reinforcing middle men. History shows platform economics is not sustainable. Every kid is shown silicon valley and taught being an intermediary/middle man is t…

7 Billion $$$ is not small change.

And can be eaten - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig50qN9V4IQ

Science doesn't provide a Priest who will show up and sit with you at your time of grief or despair in handling the unpredictable. Priests in all religions are trained to occupy th…

It is not decay. People are just more conscious than previous generations ever were about how the world works. And that leads to confusion and misunderstandings if they are only ex…

Just enough funding to view suffering. No funding to end it.

"For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love"

Jon Stewart and Tucker Carlson had their Crossfire theatre 20 years ago. Both are still performing the same act. Everything is built on top of us Vs them anxiety elevation. It's ha…

Yup. Not just Nvidia. Just look at the quarterly results reported by Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft and Apple. Each one is reporting revenues never before seen in history. If you …

> Nobody wanted to be the morality police Why? Cuz Rationalism and Logic does not produce Morality. [ How does it emerge > https://oyc.yale.edu/philosophy/phil-181/ ] So don't ask …

Depending on the time horizon the predictions change. So we get layers - what is going to happen in the next hour/tomorrow/next year/next 10 years/next 100 etc (and layers of compr…