These are great! Definitely an honorable mention

Definite an honorable mention. I like this one because it has potential to be divisive.

Love this one! Simple enough, makes you think.

Yeah, I check it from time to time. Learning rewards straight to free sats, why not?

Pretty sure you're only taxed if you convert to USD.

Great conversation starter, kudos.

The older I get, the more I realize everything can be taken away at a moment's notice, and it seems like I probably should to know how to literally survive in the woods. Not that I've done much towards that, but to your point, I do think we're becoming increasingly dependent on technology (especially with incoming AI products), and while there's a lot of potential to continuously "stand on the shoulders of giants" and innovate and expand out knowledge to infinity and beyond......... it does seem it like most of the population is going the way of the Wall-E people.

Keep telling everyone we're still early

I’d be surprised to see follow through tbh

I don't think that all people who decide not to have kids are selfish, but this does indeed seem like a selfish perspective.

But the bottom line for me is, I don't think people who think like this should be having kids, haha

I appreciate you making this post - to be completely honest, I wasn't sure what the specific intention behind this territory was, and generally there wasn't a specific "philosophy / deep thoughts / life questions" space, which is why I started ~FiresidePhilosophy... I think there's still going to be some overlap between that territory and this one, but my impression of ~alter_native is that it's intentionally unstructured. I say if that's working well, keep it up!

Super interesting. Honestly it seems super rare that the scandi works out well for folks. Even if they end up with an early advantage, scandi players seem so overly aggressive that it becomes too difficult to maintain the position, and they overextend somehow.

Gradually then Suddenly is one way a to look at it... and a lot of people think it's going to be similar to Weimar. Interest rates and the monetary supply won't just go in the same direction until it's unsustainable... They'll go up and down and up and down until we crash and burn. Each time we print money, we'll over correct with higher interest rates, then we'll over correct with more money printing, then even higher interest rates, then even more printing... At first it'll be boiling the frog, then it'll be an exponential nightmare. At least, that's one theory. Definitely seems like we're in the frog boiling stage rn.

ooooo, that's a really great way to think about it

True. But they don't have eth.news so we're better 😜

The internet should make it easier to break down narratives and misinformation, but there's a bit of a "deconstruction effect" imo... Now there's an infinite amount of misinformation, and it gives people a reason to distrust everything that doesn't fit into their worldview.

There's always been division and misinformation, the internet is exacerbating it at this point in history.

AI is very good at accomplishing easy/repeatable tasks, performing analysis, generating content, generally doing grunt work. All of the real life problem solving, creating thinking, and niche tasks are always going to be done by humans IMO. Supposedly AI is going to get way better and problem solving, but I think there's always going to be a gap in determining what's meaningful and finding truly new solutions.

The optimistic case for AI is that it's going to give all of us more brain space to think creatively and lean into the things that make us human.

@dontforgetthekeys, what are your thoughts on this article?

For Android, I think it's under something like "digital wellbeing", and for iOS you can see the total number of times you've picked up your phone in Settings > Screen Time

Platypuses glow green/blue under UV light

Should be able to see it somewhere it settings. It's never a great feeling, lol