fotdutah

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   by fotdutah 6y ago

   It seems an over-simplification to say that it's always good for the cost of food to go down, or the supply to go up. In the West, it looks like much of the rewards of intensification goes towards making people obese. And in societies
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   by fotdutah 6y ago

   Also worth pointing out that this applies to some potential 'Great Filter' events that we haven't yet encountered. If intelligent cultures don't explore the universe because they destroy their own planets in destructive
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   by fotdutah 6y ago

   The comparison is not just with other animals today but across time. Dinosaurs dominated the planet for 100 million years but do not appear to ever have been as close to space exploration as the humans of 30,000 years ago. Octopuses have be
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   by fotdutah 6y ago

   While I agree with you that the EU is roughly self-sufficient, food security is not the only goal of EU farming subsidies. France has strongly supported these subsidies, which replaced domestic French subsidies, because of the effect on rur
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   by fotdutah 6y ago

   The argument regarding intelligence is that the type of intelligence which humans show is rare on Earth as a evolutionary strategy. Other highly intelligent animals do not seem close to even the first steps of space exploration. Perhaps a b