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Lenin was right - the intellectual class is parasitic and must be eliminated for true progress.
All of the sneering intellectuals are the ones buying the iPhones and ordering everything through Amazon Prime. How many high-minded Atlantic articles did you read on your iPad Pro today while waiting for your Tesla to charge? Lenin was right - the intellectual class is parasitic and must be eliminated for true progress.
What we need is a revolution in how people think about complex systems. People nowadays throw ideas around thinking they have a good understanding of how systems operate or should operate, when in fact most are clueless and fail to realize their ignorance. Society, economy, biological organisms, climate, cognition, etc are all complex systems, and no single person can claim to understand how they work, or the types o…
Google, Amazon, Apple...they are reducing our IQs by simplifying our lives to the point of stupefaction.
None of this matters, not one iota. The world is choking in the filth we are creating, all while people like this pontificate about the next generation of the system that positively reinforces the creation of filth.
None of this matters, not one iota. The world is choking in the filth we are creating, all while people like this pontificate about the next generation of the system that positively reinforces the creation of filth.
Although the amount of resources required to produce $1 of GDP has gone down ~90% in the last century.
Economic growth = figuring out how to do more with less.
All of the sneering intellectuals are the ones buying the iPhones and ordering everything through Amazon Prime. How many high-minded Atlantic articles did you read on your iPad Pro today while waiting for your Tesla to charge? Lenin was right - the intellectual class is parasitic and must be eliminated for true progress.
Lol, alright buddy. The intellectual class is why we have progress at all. Do feel free to go back to hunting and gathering, though.
How many of your beloved CEOs are dropouts?
What we need is a revolution in how people think about complex systems. People nowadays throw ideas around thinking they have a good understanding of how systems operate or should operate, when in fact most are clueless and fail to realize their ignorance. Society, economy, biological organisms, climate, cognition, etc are all complex systems, and no single person can claim to understand how they work, or the types o…
Behemoths like Amazon are taking a flamethrower to complexity already. Want practically anything? Just click and the day after tomorrow it magically appears at your door. Google, Amazon, Apple...they are reducing our IQs by simplifying our lives to the point of stupefaction.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I found some documentary footage from the era that I think explained this quite well - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NrWX-FsXgQ
Nice clip. I'm sorry that I don't find it compelling for the purpose of answering the question as asked. Maybe you went to a different logic school.
None of this matters, not one iota. The world is choking in the filth we are creating, all while people like this pontificate about the next generation of the system that positively reinforces the creation of filth.
We'll see. My money is on things chugging along pretty much as they have been. I think this planet can take far more than we can throw at it.
RE: the article - seems like common-sense recommendations but no specifics. We'd all like to see more competition. The question is how to get there with as few side effects as possible. The specifics are the hard part.
What we need is a revolution in how people think about complex systems. People nowadays throw ideas around thinking they have a good understanding of how systems operate or should operate, when in fact most are clueless and fail to realize their ignorance. Society, economy, biological organisms, climate, cognition, etc are all complex systems, and no single person can claim to understand how they work, or the types o…
Behemoths like Amazon are taking a flamethrower to complexity already. Want practically anything? Just click and the day after tomorrow it magically appears at your door. Google, Amazon, Apple...they are reducing our IQs by simplifying our lives to the point of stupefaction.
You can't buy any of these from any company, and you definitely can't buy understanding of them.