Scott Adams Thread (Garfield Cartoonist)

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Originally Posted by freebeard

Else you could have read The Power of Positive Thinking, and rebooted yourself.



So... well past the AI Singularity then.

AI singularity seems like an easier nut to crack since the substrate it runs on has been figured out more thoroughly than the substrate we run on.

We know practically nothing about human biology. The depth of knowledge can typically answer only 2 layers deep of questioning until the answer is "we don't know why". It's surprising how often drugs are indicated to treat a condition with no explanation whatsoever why it seems to help.

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I thought we we talking about using Neuralink to control your vices.

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The Great Wave Crashes
Whatifalthist --30,564 views -- 4 hours ago

Just starting it right now.

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Same basic theme, that most of the elements of collapse are in play that point to a probable decline, or worse.

I'm more optimistic, because technology can break through to boost economic conditions (which inevitably increases disparity, which is one of the elements of collapse), or people can simply stop spending money they don't have.

... on a tangent, I'm listening to this boring sounding guy talk about population collapse. The startling fact standing out to me is his claim that no country that had experienced even a slight decline in population due to diminished birthrates has ever recovered.

The other conspicuous yet not often considered fact is the #1 best predictor of population growth rate; how many children women say they want to have. For a population to stabilize, it "simply" requires women to say they want the number of children that creates that population growth rate.

Finally, even Africa, the only place in the world with a growing population, is experiencing a declining population growth rate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahjdeDhP09o