- COVID-19 is just a dress rehearsal for something even more deadly.
- Since there is no apex predator for humans, viruses will likely rise to become the leading cause of death
- Modern society is, by definition, carbon positive
- The one time that society allowed young people to explore their interests, to not work (the 60s), the establishment was so scared at the revolution they never wanted that freedom to ever be available again
- Universal healthcare in the US would cause massive economic shock due to the unemployment
- Affordable college education would also cause massive economic shock with unemployment as this would mean removal of government backing for student loans
- Racism is a cultural disease sort of like cancer that has many forms, mild and severe. It is individual and cannot be cured.
- Those who lack money problems always have problems. Humans need drama in their lives to feel alive.
- The attention economy that Facebook started is destroying normal human behavior year by year
- To be a producer in the new visual economy (IG), it helps to be conventionally attractive. But that if not enough, you also have to demonstrate that you are not perfect, whether fake or human
- Political correctness and its evil twin Virtue Signaling are dividing all of us, perhaps on purpose
- Everything is faked or polished to be better than it really is at some level. Technology has been good enough to do it for a while to do it offline. Lookup Melodyne for singing. Now technology is getting to the point where it can do it live
- We may not make it past the Great Filter
- Smartphones are actually dumb phones because they make us dumb
- Time is everyone's most precious resource, yet we give it away sometimes like it were free "Do you have a minute?"
- Using headphones in an office to concentrate is training your brain to require headphones to concentrate
- Caffeine is the most successful drug
- Capitalism is the only economic model that works because it gives people something to aspire towards
- You cannot have capitalism without personal debt.
- Capitalism is unsustainable as you cannot expect to grow X percent a year and not eventually run out of Y.
- The Pareto Principle can be applied to anything. For example, how many people in a company actually do useful work (20% do 80%)
- Education is the most powerful force
- Sex doesn’t just sell. Sex is everything.
- Happiness is biologically meant to be fleeting. Otherwise we would eat once, have sex once... and then die.
- Companies spend large sums of money to create controlled, temperature controlled environments to make people focus on work called offices
- Some people think they are wealthy. They are not. You are only wealthy if you can maintain your preferred lifestyle without having to work.
- Monogamy is a cultural construct
- Without biological or technological adaptation to combat radiation in space, long-term space travel is impossible