whytaka

While financialized society is still standing, I'd much rather have money than material wealth.

Security and freedom, time, and well-being. Worth much more than another luxury t-shirt.

But people are expected to understand the part of the system they are responsible for at the level of abstraction they are being paid to operate.

This new arrangement would be perfectly fine if they aren't responsible when/if it breaks.

Can I ask how you made the animations in the Use Cases section?

They have a feature where you can take a photo and create a world from that.

If instead of a photo you have a video feed, this is one step closer to implementing subjective experience.

I think this is the key component of developing subjective experience.

And yet still a more contemplative and responsible approach to morality.

> I think people don’t participate in religion because it asks of them. Many people are lazy, greedy or hedonistic. It takes effort and “practice” to be virtuous or religious.

Say what you will of "wokeism" but it is an ethic that asks plenty of people. It constantly demands one to evaluate virtuous action or inaction. I don't think people are turning away from religion because it takes work. Because it requires real moral deliberation, it's actually more work than mere obedience to scripture.

My mileage does vary. Countless crimes of abuse and co-option of moral authority enabled by religion has proven to me that evil does exist and the presence of religion or the lack thereof is orthogonal to building a moral society.

Negative press about religion, whether its corruption or its inefficacy, has led to lower participation in religion the world over.

Surely that's more Western philosophy than Christianity. If anything, Christianity impeded social progress. Even now, the most vocal Christians would contend that moral truths owe to scripture than reason.

I want an all-screen iPod gen 2-4 as a phone.

I haven't used float in at least half a decade. CSS is easy.

What is the difference?

The word has many interpretations. You've touched upon just one (and the most fallacious: ad populum) of them.

The masses can be extreme if they are:

- wrong

- deviates sharply from historical norms

- undergoing mass psychosis