RecombinationNation

This is a shame, from both angles too. Pascoe exaggerated practices and manipulated words (because hes a skilled writer) which makes it easy to write off but from the other angle it makes people think they can dismiss anything and everything as lies. Even posting a video where they can see it with their own eyes, the severely retarded are in the comments clutching at straws to argue it. But they all have a magical old true aborigine or cousin thats a nurse "out bush" that tells them the truth, its fascinating.

The future won’t look empty, even in the context of much lower birth rates and declining population Most people, especially the young, will live in cities. Things will feel as crowded as ever, and housing will feel just as unaffordable as ever before

Something I have never seen explained proper is *how* AI is supposed to lead to accelerating double digit economic growth for several decades at a time. I would like those making the bull argument for this to make the argument in physical terms and explain to me how ASI overcomes the obvious physical limits involved. GDP means “gross domestic production.” Production is an energetic process. It is not just measured in dollars, but in joules. Industrial Revolution level growth means an Industrial Revolution level change in joules. It means fundamentally new ways of generating energy and moving material. It also means a fundamental change in the material basis of our civilization on par with invention of pressurized concrete, steel bars, and plastics. What did this growth look like in the Chinese context? It meant replacing mud roads with bullet trains, stone houses with skyscrapers, and village pigsties with industrial farming operations that consume artificially produced chemicals in the metric tons. The ASI bulls are not just predicting that sort of change of our entire material environment—they are predicting it will happen again and again and again—once every five years or so. Is that physical possibly? Can your God-like intelligence *physically restructure the entirety of human civilization* every five years? People are too glib.

I still have no idea who decided to grow Alfalfa in the middle of fucking Arizona

There’s a cognitive bias called the Dunning–Kruger effect. People with limited knowledge on a subject often overestimate their ability, while those with greater expertise are more likely to recognize how much they still have to learn.

The Fountainhead is one of those books that leave you changed. The protagonist, Howard Roark, is based on Rands view of the ideal man. He thinks for himself, creates rather than imitates, takes responsibility for his own life, refuses to sacrifice his values for the approval of others, pursues excellence as moral obligation, values truth over comfort, refuses to rule or be ruled.. He is ungovernable.