dennis_jeeves1

16. Have relationships with functional/reliable people who will help you in a crisis. ( easier said than done)

The headline can be rewritten/generalized as : "The boiling frog of freedom"

>we're forgetting the basics of civilization, like, what are ownership rights?

Most people always had poor memories, George Orwell make that observation. It's unfortunately one of the human conditions.

Flip the gender in the headline and there will be more comments. lol.

True, let me also include the ritual of shaving. It ain't fun.

>But while we are fine with different genetic groups having different incidences for hair color, nose shapes or skin pigmentation,

For most people differences among different groups stop at the brain ;)

>Needing to be your own scientist now is like needing to be your own farmer: completely unnecessary for most people.

I wish I could tell that you were right. But you are wrong. This tell me more about how much you have spent time on a even a simple subject like food if you lived in USA. How can I even have a more nuanced conversation on a complicated subject?

You have a fair point ( though I wasn't quite referring to that) , in the sense that we all make decisions based on best evidence that fits our own best analysis rather than be paralyzed by “we don’t know” stand.

My guess regarding most people that I know, is that a typical 'climate-denier' ( the ones I know) generally have investigated more that his 'climate-acceptor' counterpart who seems to have unequivocally accepted the official position.

Note I'm not saying that that the 'climate-denier' is right, I'm saying that he has made more efforts to understand the information available to him. Who is to say who brought into the 'propaganda'?

>Yet despite your inability to independently and directly verify it (which actually you could do)

No you cannot, unless you are willing to spend a few years on it. I can tell right away that have not explored any subject in depth.

Correct, I cannot verify if the earth is round, flat or trapezoid.

(I'll give some credence to astronauts, pilot, astronomers etc. who have relatively direct evidence that someone like me with a desk bound job)

>but has fallen into the propaganda trap.

How about the other way around?

My point being, for a subject like this, either you or your friend cannot verify the 'science' except take someone's word.

And now if only someone funded an ALS cure...

As far I know, I don't don't think mainstream medicine is close to solving _any_ chronic condition, except managing it.

The tragedy is - why do the young care about technology? Look like they have to find some meaning in their un-fulfilling lives.

>It's polite. Sorry you have a chip on your shoulder about it though.

I would tell you to cut that shit out, if you dealt with me in person. I really would.

>Education, however, consistently leads to better outcomes

So, if everyone had 2 phds ( assuming phds are the pinnacle of educational heights) almost no one (or very few) would be left behind?

> 3) What is the root cause?

This really is an easy ( but not popular) answer. It's collective stupidity or more formally low IQ.

A quote come to mind: “If at age 20 you are not a Communist then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are not a Capitalist then you have no brains.”

>I took it at face value as a good story about animals running a farm.

I think adult 'socialists' ( as opposed to capitalists ) are in that league.

A quote come to mind: “If at age 20 you are not a Communist then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are not a Capitalist then you have no brains.”

That's a good way to put it. It's very accurate to the extent I understand most humans.

>You seem to be throwing the baby with the bathwater and being too cynical if you conclude

No, I didn't disagree with the scientific process per-se. But don't put too much faith in it either if there are things at stake for you. You have to personally investigate a subject if needed if the stakes are high enough. Medicine is one area I can think off. Don't always conclude that it is a generally upward trajectory of better understanding either. People often replace one set of superstition with another.

In the end it really depends on your personal background and experience. If you have never taken on the establishment or if you never observed an anomaly with established expert/scientific opinion you won't know the rot.

>Do you believe that reality doesn't exist?

'Reality' isn't something that different people can easily agree on. Most people including professional scientist have little or no inclination to investigate their beliefs.

>the _is_ a fact of the matter that eventually people will recognize,

Wrong, very wrong.

>Employees have realised we are equally as effective working from home and simply do not want to waste 2+ UNPAID hours of every day travelling to a corporate building for the sake of it.

Most were effectively fools to not realize that before Covid. Now when will they start realizing that out of the 5 days that they work in a week they are working without compensation anywhere from 2 to 4 days effectively for the Govt/corporate/overlords because of taxation at various levels. ( taxesincome/property/sales, inflation etc.)

To summarize the meta problem is the minions, not the corporations. In this day of automation most people should be having a lot of free time and relatively little work, but here were are in the year 2023 working and commuting our asses off.

Better that fixing a kubernates yaml configuration for sure.

Now that we know what the problem is, here is one potential solution that I can think of besides the obvious 'find-a-good-dentist' . Take dentistry and medicine into your own hands to the best possible extent, yes I know it's 'illegal' but...

Anyway read my profile and get in touch with me.

Very strange indeed.

>If that had happened to me, it probably would have radicalized me.

One can just get 'radicalized' merely by observing what going on around, like Ted Kaczynski. Version 1.0 of humans collectively don't meet the bar of standards for a civilized society, if a civilized society did exist then it's by fluke of a confluence of factors and fleeting one at that.

>> competence is often inversely correlated with charisma

>Source needed

Experience and observation. When one is deeply involved in solving hard problems, one has less time for pleasantries, superfluous stuff ( but important to people in general) and subtle manipulations of relationships, that make up 'charisma'. Over time that becomes your personality. Not saying that this is the best thing to happen to an engineer, but it's the way things are IMO.

>I'm a physicist. I'm deeply concerned about the reproducibility of my results.

By way of comparison, biology and related 'sciences' ( psychology, medicine, nutrition, microbiology etc.) will appear to be nearly a scam...

>and the entire team gushed with praises for each other

Lol, you should add that this is a sarcasm.

Another thing that one can also be reasonably sure, is when when things stop working ( for the ones where it was working for a time, and they were talking about it), is that they are going to be very quite about it.