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Haha. That was a funny juxtaposition.

I feel the issue we experience in the modern world that it just feels unnatural and alienating to be surrounded by thousands and thousands of people we don't know at all and who don't know us. In a small tribe you have the comfort of knowing everyone around you fairly well. The modern world is so anonymous.

With the difference that the larger the cities, the less we know the people around us and socialize with them. Totally different if you live in a tribe of 200 people or a mega city with 20 million people around you.

I don't agree. It's a description of a simple hunter gatherer life. Why do you say this has never existed?

That sounds nice. Which parts of the globe do you recommend for such a lifestyle? I assume your not a digital nomad but rather deeply embedded in your environment? Would love to learn more about this lifestyle. Want online resources you can recommend?

Love it and totally agree. The comfort we think we need is nothing else than hedonic adaptation.

The title says hunter gatherers. That's totally different from life 150 years ago. It's even different from the medieval or agrarian iron age times.

Tribal hunter gatherers cultures (and not agrarian cultures) are very egalitarian. Social mobility is not relevant at all because there is no stratification. You are just you and I think this is some of the beauty we in modern world yearn for. Not only people today but also pre industrially. In Europe we left this hunter gatherer lifestyle several thousand years ago...

Not true. Raw materials depend on energy to extract and are geopolitically not a straight forward thing given that most materials are concentrated in few locations on our planet.

I wonder these specific data center jobs seem to be very cycle specific and will all fall away as soon as we have constructed "enough" data centers.

Interesting bar.

Wow. First time I can't see stuff on Reddit without an account :(

Seems like AI is porn 2.0. People get emotionally addicted to it and replace human intimacy. Strange new world... I fear humans will just grow more and more distant with each other in the future. We will have everything and nothing at the same time.

Since when are these reports behind registration forms?

Fyi octopus is a Greek not Latin word (meaning 8 feet) and its correct plural would be rather octopodes.

Interesting. Agree. Ambition seems to be more the issue. How are ambition and intelligence related?

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Interesting. Never heard this before. Could you please explain this?

> Your gender equality is made of petroleum.

That is the weirdest and wokest comment I read this year on the internet. Could you please explain?

> It took the S&P 500 years to come back from the dot-com bust in 2002

Had to read the sentence thrice.

North Korea is missing. How should Kim Jong Un travel on his armored train to China?

That 'some' is actually very little compared to rich countries' GDP per capita. You could argue that a lot is wasted acquiring useless stuff.

Curious, what do you mean with prosperity in this context?

Yeah maybe for more academic questions. Not really for just posting interesting, insightful links. Also, unfortunately, a dying website...

Which ones do you recommend following? In my experience the quality of reddit is so much worse than HN.

Hm. No I mean more with the grassroots hacker nature that Hacker News has. A collection of links/news that are generally interesting, educating, newsworthy etc. Plus the discussion around it. Yes the subreddits maybe but they seem to be so spread out. So many different subreddits with partial overlap. It's a lot more fuzzy than HN which is a really well moderated go-to resource. (Maybe showing again how well dang does his job and how rare such good admins are)

And that in a communist country...

VT and chill

Good read. Wondering are there any good websites with collections/link lista of credible, inspiring and thrilling stories like this?

Curious: What would you accept as "substance"?