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Commercial air traffic has increased ~400% since 1990 [0], do you feel that number reflects the increase in reporting?

0. https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/world-air-pas...

You will find your answer in the article

That won't change 20-30% of their customers using Facebook/Instagram to find them.

The only way I've seen around the impenetrable US social media network effects is to isolate your people either through restricting access or naturally occurring low bilingualism.

The western world speaks English online, so the latter is unlikely to happen and the former would be a final admission that our cultural values mean nothing in practice.

Opencode has free access to Qwen 3.6 and Deepseek v4 Flash right now.

They're on par with Claude and Codex imo - when you still design architecture and know what the output should be. Claude and GPT 5.5 need less guidance with vibe coding, but we're not yet at a point where that's sustainable anyway even with those models.

Critical infrastructure. The US has a history of forcing their way into many parts of it [1] and we know they use it for leverage whenever it's suitable. Furthermore, if you control the information flow of a system, then decision making based on that information becomes dependent on those who control it.

[1] https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/guerre-economique-c...

It's the Bayesian Brain Hypothesis and Predictive Coding, both thoroughly researched theories that line up with empirical evidence. [1]

[1] https://www.cell.com/trends/neurosciences/abstract/S0166-223...

Considering our intelligence stems from our ability to use bayesian inference and generative probabilities to predict future states, are we even limited by brain size and not a lack of new experiences?

The majority of people spend their time working repetitive jobs during times when their cognitive capacity is most readily available. We're probably very very far from hitting limits with our current brain sizes in our lifetimes.

If anything, smaller brains may promote early generalization over memorization.

The article raises good points, but I feel it misses the bigger picture.

Every generation has some people more interested in the depth of their field than others. So why do we see fewer of the actual experts?

Well, we don't, we just see more of the surface level developers being able to contribute real economic value to society. They were just kept out by the more demanding requirements before.

If anything, it's a good sign we've come to have this luxury problem.