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@esrtweet I think the wisest policy if enough people care would be to study their culture. Send a drone shaped like a bird and observe their customs. No reason to make a decision blindly.

This is a complicated moral question, it's been troubling me for years, and I still don't have a stable answer. Most of the arguments for leaving the Sentinelese alone are romanticizing noble-savage bullshit. We know what life in societies like this is like - nasty, brutish, and short to a degree modern Westerners not only fail to understand but have difficulty even imagining. Technology and wealth can fix that. On the other hand, it is undeniable that contact with modern civilization would in a very meaningful sense destroy the Sentinelese; this experiment has already been run on their kin in the rest of the Andaman Islands and the results were dolorous. Many would be killed by disease. Many others would become addicted to alcohol. Still others would evade both those fates only to find that they're still incapable of having any role in modern society other than as dependents and impoverished day laborers. Only a lucky few at the right-hand end of their IQ bell curve would integrate successfully. The utilitarian question is whether improving the quality of life for their talented tenth outweighs what modernity would do to the rest of them. And there's another point: the Sentinelese have made it very clear that most of them want to be left alone. It's easy to argue that we're obligated to respect their autonomy, but - what of the children who gaze at passing ships and dream of escaping the primitive grind of their lives? This is a more significant question when you reflect that in societies like these a significant fraction of those children are quite likely to be raped by the men in their tribe before reaching adulthood. Such behavior is sometimes ritualized as tribal custom; field anthropologists know this, but generations of them have been politically conditioned never to reveal facts about the societies they study that could be construed as arguments for Western superiority. There are no facile answers. It's a variant of the trolley problem - we know that leaving the Sentinelese alone conduces to many kinds of harm, but busting their isolation would open them up to many different kinds of harm. Hands-off is an easy policy. At least we can tell ourselves we're not actively doing damage, and that what they do to each other is on them. I do wonder how often the children are being raped, though.

@shiri_shh Would be awesome if you could warm up a neighborhood during winter with this tech. Temporary summer time

This startup lets you ORDER SUNLIGHT from space to your exact location in 30 seconds 😭

@AviSchiffmann You should add in life alert as a feature. Imagine if you weren’t there to give aid after her seizure. It could save lives

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@JOBhakdi Yes I’m also hoping this is a wake up call for Europe. The world needs a powerful Europe, and hopefully this is their ‘sputnik’ moment, when they realize how bad the self sabotage has gotten.

I love how suddenly everyone is in for a dose of Realpolitik. The EU realizes that it sucks and is defenseless. Putin already knows he is stretched thin. Germany pivots towards Russia after realizing it can’t rely on the US to protect it. The Scandinavians realize they have to stick together and no one else is to be trusted. Trump will soon learn that Greenland is not an option. Of course, Trump and Putin have to learn the least since they are already more realistic and are just trying out what’s possible. The Europeans benefit the most from this little exercise. I think the most decisive issue - migration - will also benefit from this. The more European countries are forced to face reality - including assessing their power, economy, leverage - the more they will realize that the fastest path to strength is to fix migration: Reduced costs Better education Lower housing prices More cohesion Stronger economy Ultimately , all these insane mistakes and suicidal behavior are functions of decadence and lack of pressure. With pressure dialing up, nations tend to self-correct and seek the best path forward. Once the first capable European country decides to start winning again , all the others have to follow in short order. We could be coming close to that point. All thanks to Trump, btw.

@JellyfishDAO Fantastic, thank you for your great work 👏🏾

@MLLagoon We're working on something else that you might like. More details to come.

What if our descendants look back at our acceptance of aging the way we look back at medieval medicine? We interviewed them. Dystopian futures are easy to imagine. Optimistic futures take vision and courage to build. VOICES FROM 2099:

@SarAllyce @gts109 You should try keeping a hefty stash of fruit to consume right after cardio. Your body’s glycogen stores are depleted, so you need to replenish them. That’s why your appetite is going crazy. Bananas and cantaloupe do the trick nicely.

@gts109 Yes ur right, but controlling the eating isn’t independent imo. Because when I was doing excessive cardio my appetite was bonkers. Out of control. Switching to walking & lifting only has helped

A few lessons here: 1) going from sedentary to even mildly active will make a huge difference 2) results come fast early on 3) results come fast from cardio 4) losing weight was the easy part but sustaining the weight loss was 100x harder. I tried to keep weight off via cardio/burning calories for years. The body adapts to this, which means u have to continually increase cardio/calorie burn to continue seeing results. I spun my wheels - literally - for years trying to sustain weight loss this way, eventually working myself up to 1.5+ hrs of cardio a day (DONT DO THIS)! What I should have done is prioritized lifting & building muscle. Your body never adapts to the weights because weights can always go up. Build muscle, let ur muscles do the calorie burning. I decreased cardio 5 yrs ago, switched to walking only, let my muscles do the work & now I’m leaner than ever, my metabolism is better than ever, even in my late 30s

@t_loch1946 @kane It takes a tremendous amount of difficulty and risk to create and improve the system which can employ people. That’s why the founder gets the potential upside/downside, while society gets a well paying job. Consider that if the business does poorly, the boss doesn’t get paid.

@kane Except there CAN be some theft. If I put somebody to work and he creates $20 worth of value every hour and I pay him $9 plus $3 benefits, am I not skimming/stealing $8 an hour. Also, there are bubbles. Tesla has a P/E ratio of 305. Its stock appears to be over-valued.

Leftists mistake wealth creation for theft. In their zero-sum world, if Tesla didn’t exist, its billions would “belong” to the working class, never mind that it wouldn’t exist at all.

@CobyJMarcum @kane Money is not a store of labor. For e.g. if I have a wrote a book years ago, and it went viral on tiktok and sells 1 million new copies. I created value without doing any new work. Money is a store of wealth ~ problems solved/value created.

You are correct. I had probably an hour and a half conversation with someone on an airplane about this exact topic. In their mind, at the beginning of the conversation, they felt every dollar that one person had was a dollar that was taken from somebody else. Toward the end of the conversation, he started to realize that money is a store of labor, and when there is more labor, that is literally generating money, aka generating more “value”. When people labor less, there is less money (less value) because money is a store of labor. Money is a symbolic store of that value, even if the money is fiat currency. The amount of “money” aka value in the world is not fixed. It fluctuates. When people labor less, even existing value is destroyed or deteriorates. This concept is similar to if there is a home and the home is not being taken care of. Then that home deteriorates, but similarly, if more time, labor, and materials is invested into that home, the home can increase in value. The materials by themselves without the labor needed to install the materials will not add value to the home. Labor is essential to adding value to the home. When we look at money in this manner, this helps us to better understand that money is simply a store of labor and money itself has no real value if it fails to be a store of labor. If we give somebody $100 to do something for us, and they refuse to do it for us so we make a similar offer to somebody else and they also similarly refuse to do any labor for us, the value of our $100 will be less. But similarly, if someone will do the same labor for us for only $50 instead of $100, and each person that we make the offer to is glad to accept the offer, in that we see value in the $50 because the $50 is sufficient enough to give someone a desire to do labor that they wouldn’t otherwise do without the $50 offer. Money is not a zero sum game because labor on planet earth is not zero sum.

@arvidkahl Most middle class people in third world countries have maids and cooks. This would let those maids and cooks take better paying jobs remotely, which would boost their pay and allow them to work from home in comfort. Really positive development for humanity.

@MLLagoon Now that's an interesting perspective. I was looking at it more through the lens of subservience and dehumanization. Which tends to be the consequence of this. Ready Player One and Gamer (the movie) show the potential abuse of these kinds of tech.

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@mwseibel Philosophy is upstream of decision making. Most people aren’t explicitly aware of the philosophies they’re running their life by. They’ve just absorbed them.

I used to think modern liberal and conservative political philosophy was an irrelevant conversation among elites and it was better to talk about practical solutions than abstract debates. I fear I was wrong. Political philosophy trickles down from the elites to the street and shapes how everyone perceives America. I feel stupid.

@LivingForever8 @dicortona It’s the radiation

@dicortona This is inconsistent with Einstein's theory of general relativity (i.e. gravitational time dilation). Traveling at faster speeds = slower aging. Was Einstein wrong?

There is no long-term human space exploration without a process of aging reversal — and the correction of this biological software design flaw. The logic is simple: any biologist or cosmobio­logist knows that space flights, especially long stays on the ISS, act as an accelerated mirror of human aging — a laboratory where we observe, in just a few months, what time produces over decades. It is true that, upon returning to Earth, a partial reversal of these effects occurs, but never without an epigenetic cost.

@kirawontmiss He should use 10x the amount. Using energy is good. Maybe 100x

we are gonna go extinct

@gertfrobe07 @DeChristianLife It’s either she wants you to take her on dates more/romance her. Or she’s no longer attracted, for one reason or another. Either way, it’s fixable.

Dealing with s*xual rejection in marriage

@DeChristianLife The actual answer to this is if u don’t have a decent job, get a decent job. If ur not in shape, get in better shape. If you’re not taking her on dates, take her on dates. In that order. There’s your fix. Simple but not easy. Acting desperate only makes it worse. Be a prize

@PaulSkallas You have spoken some deep wisdom. Every married solopreneur has encountered this phenomena

women like to see you leave the house every morning. doesn't matter where you go, cafe, a walk, a long drive. You just need to physically exit the home. Signals motion, purpose, and participation in the wider world. You’re showing the day happened outside the walls of the home. Staying inside reads as stagnation. Women want signs that life is moving forward. A story

@crostipunctus Evolution is a creator.

Evolution had no creator yet it created creators - the most meaningful objects in the universe.

@Adityapandeydev Or just do both. They’re extremely friendly to each other

Just build things now. You can fix your physique later.

@Acyn Free speech is free speech. It doesn’t matter if you’re left wing or right wing. You should be pro-free speech, or the other side will eventually use the hammer on you.

Karl: You've said you restored free speech in America. Is that free speech including for people who are harshly critical of you? Trump: I've become immune to it… That's why your network paid me $16 million.. That's why CBS paid me a lot of money too. And that's why I sued The New York Times Karl: The judge threw it out Trump: I’m winning…. And for you to stand there and act so innocent and ask me a question like that… The reason I won that lawsuit is you were proven to be dishonest. You’re not a wonderful person. You’re a terrible reporter. You know it and I know it.