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Considered that there are organizations like the Taliban and Boko Haram that rule entire countries and regions and have anti-education as a principle, yes it's those cultures that I reach for.

Internalized self loathing is a thing

There's a reason most of the western world isn't capable of building anything these days.

Not Above My Back Yard - NAMBY?

Pelicans hate biking in the rain (as do I).

no - they blame it on AI

> In the data I've seen, the US and European countries have a more negative view of AI than China and developing countries.

I think that's more a sign of the relative state of these economies and the rate of progress. In developing economies, people see progress as something that will improve their lives. In developed economies, they see it as something that will disrupt their current status quo and must be stopped.

There's a class of people who'll run with it - the same people who were protesting 5G towers 5 years ago.

Very similar to the pro-illegal immigration crowd

This has probably been true only in the last 300? 500? years. Before that, things were the same for 1000+ years for most of civilization, barring any large invasions from neighboring kingdoms, or some far away empire (mongols etc).

It's entirely possible that he's changed and his pulse of the market has changed in the 10+ years since that decision.

Underwater data centers: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/china-powers-ai-b...

"Flying cars" https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/joby-flie...

They learned their lesson from buying Allbirds shoes 10 years ago.

> it would only take a couple of these to really fill the context alot.

Only skill front-matter (name, description, triggers etc) are loaded within context by default, so this isn't likely to happen without 1000s of skills.

My impressions after trying it in the Apple Store was - amazing v1 hardware, beta quality software and alpha quality content.

> b2b sales would be just as restricted as sales to consumers.

They're not. A significant part of ad spend by the likes of Temu, AliExpress, Shein and other Chinese exporters are on Meta's platforms: e.g. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/31/metas-continued-rally-could-...

Meta absolutely does business in China. e.g. https://www.metacareers.com/v2/locations/shenzhen/?p[offices...

https://www.metacareers.com/v2/locations/shanghai/?p[offices...

https://www.metacareers.com/v2/locations/hongkong/?p[offices...

I also assume, like most advertising platforms, they cater heavily to the China export market.

> the south was one of the most economically prosperous regions in the Indian subcontinent at the time.

Still is, tbh

Does this work with ACP?

San Francisco is notoriously the most anti-new-housing city in the country.

I did that for my reading glasses, but for shortsightedness, especially as an astigmatic, I find it hard to buy glasses or frames without actually wearing them. Curious what your strategy is.

To be fair, the author does explicitly state that their blog is:

> A home for poorly researched ideas that I find myself repeating a lot anyway

I would reframe it from

> Biological optimal vs societal optimal

to

> Biological optimal vs personal optimal

> Once India and China go negative who is going to fill that gap?

Take a look at the fertility rates and population growth rates in African countries.

Yes - I suspect this doesn't apply to blue collar or fields like art and sports.

"government issued voter-ID"

Gasp! Checking for IDs while voting is fascist! It's like Germany 1937.

If your job wants you to fly, it should buy you an id that lets you fly. Have you never applied for a visa to travel on a business trip?

> How many of the “working poor” can afford to fly and don’t have a drivers license?

What he really means is illegals who have fake ids who now can't get RealIDs.

> It's extremely difficult to keep things cold in space.

This is one of those things that's not obvious till you think about it.

The earth doesn't die because CO2 levels increase. There have been multiple epoch with higher CO2 concentrations than we have now.