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What if we just implemented PHP on the browser instead?

"Do not sympathize too much with jesus because you may turn to one of his followers"

I really hate this era of discourse. It's mostly dominated by emotionally-driven americans with juvenile opinions who take twitter and facebook too seriously. A dumbed down elite making dumb meta-arguments using the emotional drivels of the most vocal but equally dumb sample of humans as input data. Meanwhile, european intellectual social commentary has either completely stopped or is hidden deep inside academic meetings and is afraid to meet the public. The UK doesnt seem to have much to offer also, and the bleak russians seem to have decided on collective suicide.

What's left? I guess i will wait for GPT-41 to write an actual intellectully challenging novel

Every opinion should be attacked from all angles to prove its validity. Saying that people are contrarian for expressing a counteropinion is asking for people not to attack a position, which would lead to false opinions being propagated.

hint: openAI didn't care either

The order is reversed

obviously nonmonogamous communities did not survive so what we see may be survivor bias. Nowadays however it IS becoming possible for nonmonogamous socieites to survive due to our superior technology. Hopefully there will be better studies out there than my office-chair evopsych.

Maybe that's why Zuck is pushing the metaverse. Since people can't be glued off their screens, create a party inside their screens and remake their friday night through faithful facsimiles to force them to party again like it's the 70s.

That's why people don't buy a house, live with parents longer, live as nomads etc.

I don't share the pessimism around this - housing should be a commodity i can get at a touch of a button because it is easy to build (and i work remotely). There are interests preventing this though, so until then, anything goes

Just leave some hair somewhere... In the future, kids will clone us and keep us for pets in their garden

Hotter take: men don't want long-term partners period, monogamy is social conditioning because it leads to stable and more successful settlements.

Eros did not just represent lust but also love. Agape is a context more limited to christianity, which kind of has anti-sexual overtone.

But there were many Erotes representing all kinds of desire and attraction

> Anteros ("Love Returned"),[1] Hedylogos ("Sweet-talk"), Hermaphroditus ("Hermaphrodite" or "Effeminate"), Himeros ("Impetuous Love" or "Pressing Desire"), Hymenaios ("Bridal-Hymn"), and Pothos ("Desire, Longing," especially for one who is absent)

For Ukrainian willingly endangering the pres would amount to treason

Sure people stop and think. traditionalism does not have a lot of potential for commercial exploitation so you see more of the other. You can't stop it, but you can at least let people know that the whole romantic ecosystem from hollywood to PUAs is basically a marketing scam.

and knowledge is a boner-killer

at some point one realizes that people like to make up dramatic situations in their own minds and then live in that reality, and that's a form of self-gratification. According to Brave New World, we should have gotten over this neo-religion of romance that hollywood preached.

if you are a journalist and leak out endangering information you should never be trusted again, with or without an NDA

given that it's impossible to enforce it, no. but it s a great way to communicate a message

... for now

Car design is much more interesting than the wholly homogeneous world of mobile and computing. Hasn't anyone come up with a nice idea for 15 years?

Doesn't that already exist?

also "tech people" is underdetermined. Are there prominent founders who are 'woke'? prominent developers or technology pioneeers? Those tend to be generally individualist and libertarian

Did it lean left in the 90s? the 00s? It seems that the progressive turn happened after tech became mainstream and recruited hordes of all kinds of employees, and implemented diversity quotas

You re not just biased, you re angry. Realize that you 're not the first angry religious person. Europe fought religious wars centuries ago and it was devastating. It fought nationalist wars in the past century and was almost leveled to the ground. It's way beyond the point where it s going to be accepting of theocracies and religious fundamentalism and even nationalism. Individual rights and enlightenement values is what people believe in. LGBT rights are used as a shit test for those values, and they are important despite the fact that LGBT are a small minority. If you can live with your religious beliefs but still tolerate them , then congratulations you have become an individual of the modern world. It's not that hard, all it takes is some control of emotions.

Maybe also read up some history of the ottoman empire and the countries that sprung out from it. Some have managed to escape becoming part of the middle east problems, some are regressing like turkey, some never made it to statehood. The world is more complex than simplistic religious stories. People don't hate you ; they have their own convictions shaped by their own history and their own anxieties.

i think academia's future is remote. school too - especially if people want to travel nomadically.

Academia has actually had this model for a long time - people moving with their families for postdocs every few years and keeping in touch remotely with old colleagues

The gist here should be that there needs to be worldwide coordination for taxation base of workers. Remote work visas are a start but there needs to be a clear global standard. Maybe airbnb could push for this