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It doesn’t matter how long it’ll take to reach them. The real benefits of such moonshot (or alien-shot) projects is the technological breakthroughs that come about from them. For example: water purification systems which were originally built to sterilize spacecraft drinking water.

If one of these worlds interests humanity enough to have a coordinated attempt to reach there, that itself will be a huge win in terms of the side effect technology benefits that will come out of it.

Connections

Short answer: More people rely on tips for their living than people who are bothered by it. Even the ones who are bothered by it, are not bothered enough to do anything about it.

Having no concerns and being healthy.

As the old adage goes

Ignorance is bliss.

Drawing from my own life experiences, the more I learn the more things I worry about that could go wrong. This worry creeps into all aspects of life and becomes the norm. This creates a sense of dissatisfaction which can be a form of unhappiness.

Smart folks get aware of environment/challenges etc much sooner than others and maybe that creates the pathway to erosion of happiness.

My personal opinion is that grades are one aspect of a filter that decides which college and subsequently which network a certain individual will have access to. It has a high correlation with intelligence but not linked via causation.

Every generation has struggled with it, except now it’s discussed heavily on social media and other forums. Hence the impression that it’s unique to this generation.

Are there challenges today that didn’t exist for previous generations? Yes! Are they more complex compared to what the previous generations faced? No!

If it’s the case, what’s wrong with that? Many have had to do that to get better gpa and college prospects.

Not a native speaker and my scores are 20, 19, 19, 20 and 15 for a total of 93.

Maybe I should consider myself as one :)

Can't. It'll be too expensive, I suspect, for mere speculation.

Thanks, makes sense now why they’re pushing for it.

I don’t have any background in finance, but what is stopping these companies from creating their own index and promoting it heavily? They have the market cap and the capital backing to do it I presume.

Probably it estimated future AI subscription costs.

Now you have a different problem to solve!

I was initially very surprised to see "The god of small things" in this list and even more so to see it at 32 in the list. But then, this is a list voted for by authors, critics and academics who are probably the only set where such books are popular.