How about global supply chains for food and clothes? How about the social systems such as healthcare and education? How about infrastructure like the internet or roads? Does each “independent” man do it all on their own?

How about global supply chains for food and clothes? How about the social systems such as healthcare and education? How about infrastructure like the internet or roads? Does each “independent” man do it all on their own?

I love how you put it. I think the particular consequences of not making money quickly enough is pulling the plug in projects. Investors want money, not games.

I think I just exposed how expensive and rare I think kidney-stone treatments are…

Edit: clarity

Oh… I wonder how expensive using that bathtub is. Are they rare? Like, would almost any hospital have one?

You seem to be doing quite some things well. Maybe pay attention to your brushing? My dentist once had me brush my teeth in front of her and identified why in some teeth I’d consistently be clean and in others I’d consistently build plaque.

Her recommendations: brush from the gum to the tip of the tooth. Try to aim at the holes between teeth. Pay close attention to the part in front of your tongue, in your lower front teeth; that part can easily build plaque if you don’t use the tip of your brush well to get in the holes between your teeth.

1. I am scared of the amount of data that they hoard without being transparent with their code.

2. I am also scared of their contribution to hacker honey-pots by giving our data to American mass surveillance systems, something we learned with the Snowden leaks. I mention the honey pot because I assume you trust politicians and bureaucracies more than hackers. Right now there are NSA employees that can look at all of your Google data. While you may trust them, the fact is, they created a honey-pot for hackers. This is Bruce Schneier’s point.

3. I am scared of Google’s capacity to shape public opinion, usually to favor whoever pays the most money. This is Jaron Lanier’s point.

4. I am frustrated at how large they are, stifling competition. This is the point of the antitrust suits that have come up.

Sure, I like that there are cool people there working on Android and open standards for pictures and video. But I do not want to support a publicly owned company that will ultimately serve its investors. I do want to support institutions that are incentivized to care about something other than investors, institutions that are incentivized to care about where the world is going, about you and I.

Or mammal supremacist. Or vertebrate supremacist. There are options

Then how do you explain this? Checkmate, anyone who doesn’t see the halo 😎

I read ebooks 😢

Out of curiosity, what makes you say so?

Edit: Oh. Did a “Wooosh” happen to me right now? Are you being ironic and referring to the XKCD thing about how to make a secure password using words in phrases?

We all have thoughts in our head. They are the lenses through which we see reality.

Sometimes, we are aware of that. For example, we may realize we’re being prejudiced or that we’re being cranky because of our mood.

However, this uses up a lot of energy; our frontal lobe is very energy-hungry. So we spend most of the time thinking habitual thoughts and following habitual behaviors. We don’t realize we’re looking at reality through a lens. We assume we are simply looking at reality.

What I am wishing for is for people to constantly be aware that the way they are looking at reality depends on the lenses they have learned and habitually use.

Metacognition becomes routine for humans. We are able to better de-fuse from our thoughts, and recognize them not as reality but as thoughts about reality.

Could this backfire? Like, sure, no combustion engines, but that would be solved in the long run with electricity. But are there things I’m forgetting that would be critical? Like a chemical process for critical chemicals that requires explosions or something like that.

This brought to my mind Coherence Therapy and its emphasis on memory reconsolidation. Also this therapy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFdSd5ow0yw

I do the same but with interviews with the people that made the movie, especially the writers.

Frame challenge: to avoid mass surveillance, a good FLOSS E2EE app ✌️😎

This makes me think that malware will be able to be in an iPhone even before it is taken out of the box. I wonder if this will become an issue in the future. I suppose time, good research, and effective journalism will let us know.

Sorry about appearing as if I was assuming something about you and sorry about appearing as patronizing. I should’ve said that I wondered what lead you to say what you said.

As to accuracy, maybe I can explain what lead me to say what I said. In Yuval Harari’s Homo Sapiens, he shows that coordinated human action requires imagination. We all need to agree that certain imagined things are reality, such as money, nations, institutions… The mechanism by which this happens, I think, is through our capacity to relate any concept in our mind and take it as true. This is based on Relational Frame Theory and Steven Haye’s work on how human cognition works. This is what leads me to say that people are not ironic or duplicitous in their claims that superstition is real.

Let me know if you have questions about anything else ☺️

Fair enough. I should’ve been more accurate.

Here’s a revised version: Through years of research done with the World Value Survey, we know that religious beliefs fade from everyday life when people have more money, education, and connectivity. A good source for this is Freedom Rising by Christian Welzel.