DougEiffel

I think the point is to start considering a back up plan and then...hakuna matata.

Cat's out of the bag. There is no legislation that will stop this. Not unless/until it has some obscene cost and AI gets locked down like nuclear weapons. But even then, it's just too simple to make these things now that the tech is known.

I sure don't know the answer but we just don't know what's coming next. Gonna have to wait and see.

I mean, there's something to be said for letting kids get away with shit.

The old version of "actions not having consequences" was not getting caught. It can be enriching to rebel a little and get away with stuff. A lot of people grow into perfectly healthy adults and look back fondly on the stunts they pulled. Personally, I don't want my kids using any drugs but I don't think the answer is to put cameras in their rooms or supervising every play date until they're 26.

Perhaps the sensible solution is to make sure there is no system where children are getting legal charges for drug use. What an incredibly stupid system. They're kids. They are supposed to be making mistakes and learning from them in low-impact environments until they're old enough to be more responsible for their actions.

I am not surprised that kids have moved their social lives online.

Well, it sounds like the numbers were just being artificially inflated in the first place. Now they're being brought down to match reality.

Side note, I don't really see how advertising can possibly be useful in this medium. We all just skip them, right? Even when I don't, I can't say I've ever purchased something mentioned on a podcast.

Companies usually do better year after year until they reach market saturation or until the competition kills them.

Once one of those things happens, they start to squeeze blood from the stone. The quality of the product drops, the prices are inflated, jobs are outsourced or eliminated, they pivot into providing other goods and services (which will also get worse later), etc.

None of these things are mutually exclusive with that "next quarter" mindset.

I actually blame the stock market for a lot of this. Private companies can, in theory, settle for just making a nice profit year after year. As long as they come out profitable they don't need to expand. Once you're publicly traded though, you have no choice but constant expansion.

The boom and bust cycle has been happening for a long time now.

So glad you shared this. Been too long since I read this book. Love this part and it's very relevant.

One hypothesis is that the shape of the glans penis serves to push rival sperm out of the way and behind the glans to be scooped out of the vagina.

I wouldn't call monogamy unnatural. But it may be a more recent invention for humans. We still aren't sure how long it's been the norm.

It's possible that humans used to rape more often. It's also possible that humans practiced forms of polygamy. Either way, cooperative sperm makes sense. It's one of those things where a simple mutation would provide a clear benefit over the competition.

Even with written recollections and archives, it's going to be so difficult to follow. Things just change so quickly. The irony and memes that require you to understand 5 other memes are just going to be so difficult to capture in any meaningful way.

I also think people might not care that much. They'll have an even more sophisticated and oversaturated version of the internet and I'm thinking they'll only really care about a few big highlights from our time. Whatever is contained in the Wikipedia page for Reddit, Twitter, and Facebook will probably be enough for most future people.

After thinking about it, those results are probably so high up because people are misspelling "fingering."

Diabetic mother-in-law is on it. Lost a ton of weight, is moving around better, and when I saw her over the holidays last week I felt she was mentally sharper than before.

My wife has been worried about her mental acuity declining over the last few years and I kept saying I felt like the diabetes was taking a toll on her brain. Perhaps it was? And perhaps it's slowly reversing a bit?

I love tons of strange rappers. I think what rubs me the wrong way about Kosher is that he feels inauthentic in several ways.

A supposedly Jewish rapper talking about killing people and embracing that lifestyle seems weird to me. The fact that he looks awkward and uncomfortable when he tries to somewhat dance to the beat strikes me. And the way he speaks also seems very much like a put on. Like he's intentionally trying to speak in a stereotypically black manner but it doesn't come natural to him.

Generally, I get the impression that he's a white skater kid with a shtick. And being Jewish feels like part of that shtick to me.

Happy to be wrong, and I don't hate the guy. I'm not going to go around knocking people for liking him. But it does feel like something you like in middle school and then grow out of, only to go back and wonder why you enjoyed it.

Just my two cents and my opinion in worthless.

I love rap and hip hop in general.

I find Kosher to be odd. That's all.

The only reason I sometimes hesitate to agree with this line of thinking is precisely because we have the ability to think about free will at all.

I can take a moment right now to consider whether I want to lift my right hand over my head - to no benefit of my own. I can also consider how free will plays into that and decide to lift my left hand instead, stay with my right hand, or lift no hands at all.

When you have the ability to do that, I think you have free will. At least, you have the closest thing to free will anyone can ever have.

By the way, I wiggled my right foot. That was my decision after my comment.

Sorry, I have to politely disagree.

Space exploration could save humanity in so many ways. Nevermind the big "what if" discoveries that would impact the trajectory of our entire species, we also discover valuable science along the way - things that help us in our every day life.

More importantly, the country with the most advanced space agency by default has the most advanced weapons. A hostile nation could pretty easily tow a small asteroid toward Earth and wipe our any country they wanted. Rocket technology, fuel technology, etc.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the space race helped to collapse the Soviet Union to some degree, didn't it?

Regardless of whether my last point stands, I think space is incredibly important to humanity's future.

So dumb. It's free publicity for the rest of human existence. They should have been begging to have the song included.

Even a small chance of aliens becoming Beatles fans and coming to Earth to trade unimaginable wealth in exchange for licensing rights.