hitarpetar

maybe life is about more than comfort

I think that's usually what people mean when they talk about economic inequality. not that we need absolute equality, but that we have extreme inequality that is clearly causing a lot of suffering

definitely. you're right that "free time" is a luxury

typical technological determinism. comparing AI to the motorcoach assumes something we cannot know yet, namely that the impact of AI on the next century will be comparable to the invention of the automobile. there's also a long list of negative externalities caused by automobiles. who cares? anyone hurt by climate change, or who lives in a grid organized around cars rather than people. anyone who has ever been killed in a car accident.

you're describing people who work MORE than 40 hours a week

fully agree with you but this language

> basically it's a third world country

is imprecise and misleading. torturing your own citizens to death is a first world specialty, see for example the troubles in northern Ireland

I had a terrible time in Canadian jr high and great time in American high school. I think it really just depends on the school

it's always been marketing

> There's ton of information that is conveyed by the inflection of voice, demeanor, body language, etc.

information which mostly gets scrambled by a phone or video call

sorry you're struggling with the way the community responded

not converse, orthogonal

there is direct evidence that disorders like schizophrenia and bipolar tend to manifest in the early 20s. generalizing that to everyone's experience of their 20s is obviously a bit tenuous

great, now who are you paying to sort the right output from the wrong output?

yOu'Re HoLdInG iT wRoNg

maybe you haven't paid attention, speak for yourself

what are you suggesting? left politicians need to do more to explain to voters how stupid they are? it's a bold strategy cotton...

spending more than locals on rent is actually one huge problem with digital nomads

ok. can you share your methods for the statistical analysis you performed on American culture then?

so, the wikipedia articles you shared show that pax romana and pax mongolica fostered trade. is increased trade worth genocide and mass slavery? I would lean to no but actually, you're comparing apples and oranges. why are you doing that?

nice job slipping "social progress" into your argument. I wonder what your sources actually say?

> Romans regarded peace not as an absence of war, but as a rare situation which existed when all opponents had been beaten down and lost the ability to resist

yay social progress!

id probably go with 50% actually

very simplistic to characterize the decision as a trolley problem. lots of factors went into it, not least of which wanting to scare the USSR into the cold war

> Khan and Caesar brought peace to millions

They make a desolation, and call it peace

> but it still fits nicely within your request for something that no one ever came up with

YOU came up with it dawg

how do you definitely know that?

> We also just brute force "autocompletion" with our learned knowledge and combine it to new parts, which we then add to our learned knowledge to deepen the process

you know this because you're a cognitive scientist right? or because this is the consensus in the field?

> The world is full of bizarre wonders and this is just one more to add to the list.

https://youtu.be/_-agl0pOQfs?si=Xiyf0InqtjND9BnF

just so you know this means you are pro-Cheney. the untold human suffering caused by those wars was in service of the system you are glad he didn't "blow up"

there are no "general habits" in a culturally heterogenous population of 340 million people

yeah, a fun fact about most locations in the world is that you can find a civilization that used to exist there and doesn't anymore

that's why I always identify the central position of any argument and take it. that way noone can accuse me of hubris