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by gxon 7y ago
I personally believe that a key switch we can try flipping is universal basic income. The reasoning is not obvious. Basically, I think we live in a world now where almost everyone is stuck in tunnel vision for surviving today. For example,
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by gxon 7y ago
I used to think like this. Constantly stressing about how I was going to get the hell out of the city and start homesteading to escape the coming collapse. But now, I feel like that's a waste of time. There's no "other side&q
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by gxon 7y ago
I really respect anyone who's chosen to willingly sacrifice their lifestyle to reduce their carbon emissions. Very few people are actually willing to do that. So I'm curious about your opinion. Do you think that promoting hope tha
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by gxon 7y ago
I've never heard anything like this. Are you suggesting there's evidence that sugar and fat have some kind of synergistic effect when eaten together?
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by gxon 7y ago
Damn. That's a GREAT point and a concept I'll keep in mind from now on. Seems very similar to Nixon's drug war which was really a mechanism to continue legally discriminating against racial minorities. However, I'm not s
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by gxon 7y ago
It's a rather large leap to go from discriminating against people who consume a thing by choice to discriminating against their DNA that they have no control over.
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by gxon 7y ago
Certainly something that should be studied. Too bad the federal government in the US effectively banned any research into LSD for decades.
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by gxon 7y ago
I think you can, but I wonder if it's possible to separate the positive role of religion with what makes it toxic, even in secular form. In particular, I think one of most toxic aspects is exclusion. If a person doesn't conform to
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by gxon 7y ago
I think it's the other way around. It's not that we've forgotten that feeling like an imposter is just being human. It's that almost everyone has always felt this way but never talked about it. As social animals, we&#x27
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by gxon 7y ago
This seems like a trivial problem for law enforcement to honeypot. You wouldn't even need to actively monitor. Just get an alert when the devices start moving and dispatch officers to track them down. If thieves start getting clever an
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by gxon 7y ago
Is an unconfirmed sense of schadenfreude really worth losing more money for a theft? Maybe it's worth it if the device is also streaming video so you can share the experience with the world, e.g. https://www.youtube.com&#x2F
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by gxon 7y ago
Depends on the quality of life and final population level. Maybe our options are a billion people living in abject, third world poverty, or a few 10s of millions living a first world, middle class lifestyle. Depopulation will happen until w
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by gxon 7y ago
It's important to break down unrealistic fantasies so that we don't get lulled into a false sense of security or complacency for major problems. Building a maintainable civilization outside of Earth is likely a significantly harde
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by gxon 7y ago
Mass depopulation is probably the only option either way. Whether it's under our control or forced upon us. Even if we manage to colonize another world, there's no way we'll be able to scale transportation and settlement fast
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by gxon 7y ago
This crystallizes something I've been thinking for a while. A major source of community in the past has been religious groups. What makes membership in a church great at establishing community line up very closely with your 6 points. B
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by gxon 7y ago
Other technologies may be better economically, but they won't be enough. Every carbon neutral energy option needs to be on the table if we want to survive. And who knows. If we actually had an effective carbon tax that internalizes the