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I still run Windows 10 on my PC, and one night I spend about 3 hours with ChatGPT turning off all of the bullshit telemetry and other nonsense that Windows runs in the background. …

>because we can live in the toundra today No we can't. Have you been the tundra? You can't survive there on your own without technology. These people could.

Sorry, you're claiming that people who lived in a desolate tundra 40k years ago are the same as you and me. Can you be more specific? There's both a hardware and firmware element t…

They may be honest when they express themselves initially, but their revealed preference later ends up being very tragic. I know several women, and others who are friends of my wif…

Well, evaluating the nature of this thought experiment reveals what you actually believe about human evolution and development. I find it extremely hard to believe that someone fro…

Right, but, those people are wrong. "This trait didn't die out in 2 generations. Evolution is over!"

I guess I would need to read more of what Gould wrote. For example, did he claim that evolution in other species also stopped?

That's such an extreme claim. It defies common sense. You'd have to proclaim that there was some event that _stopped_ evolution in humans, universally. How is that even possible? E…

Perhaps it was not a widespread belief among scientists, I don't know, but if you were to posit in front of polite company that humans are today and always have been under evolutio…

Your point appears to be that my deeply held belief is more reasonably attainable than as an activity someone can engage in that what should result from "I believe the world is goi…

>Australian here. What makes you think the "forest fire prevention" methods you outlined upthread are "basic"? American here. They are basic where I come from (the midwest). We lea…

The initial claim here was that these fires are the result of political leadership in my country deciding to not nuke the economy to make a number on a chart go down, or at least s…

>Individual humans can believe that a broad ecological collapse is coming and still live their day to day lives in ignorance of this belief. This sentence is contradictory. How cou…

Yeah great example of what I’m talking about. Technology people on the technology website don’t seem interested in figuring out how to use technology to mitigate any effects of a c…

Not your reality, clearly.

Yes. A mature society manages its natural resources for the betterment of its people. It doesn't throw its hands up and say "well shit, guess it's that 500 year cycle again". As a …

I don’t follow. If I believed the global climate was going to collapse imminently (it’s not) I would have a very specific to do list and would be spending every hour of my free tim…

They don’t. If people actually believed this stuff they’d be learning how to hunt, get good with long guns, filter their own water etc. Revealed preferences always smash headlong i…

What does the middle of nowhere have to do with this? We have technology that allows us to fly. You fly out, conduct controlled burns, cut out bad growth, install firebreaks. This …

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Curious. Why didn’t they want them taken down?

Interesting, then I guess the obvious next question is … is there a test for being a susceptible patient? We’ve been talking about long COVID for years now. Surely there’s some com…

Is there a test for long covid?

Yeah, this is true, and PRC is pretty explicit about this too. For those who pay close attention to stuff like this, the raw comparisons in dollars spent are just not that useful w…

I could not disagree harder with this sentiment. DS and DS2 are beautiful games with deep, meaty narratives that are satisfying and rewarding, which is why players spend hours walk…