Recent content by Aldarion

I know lots of people who consider it perfectly normal to just drop by the store literally every day to pick up food for dinner or whatever. We can debate the cost benefit tradeoffs of adequate prep for real SHTF scenarios of months or years, but a hell of a lot of people are literally not...

For what its worth my kids did too, on that particular question. But I did discover that one of them had a whole row or two of the table they hadnt memorized My comment was based more on my experience with college freshmen

You don't seem to get my point. Youre acknowledging that most advances are accomplished by a small fraction of the population. But you're still trying to use those advances as "evidence" that the population isnt getting dumber. Whats 7x9?

Thats an interesting argument. What fraction is humanity is contributing to those advances? You don't think its possible for a tiny number of people to make advances while the rest of humanity gets rapidly dumber? If not, why not? Also, have you interacted with any people in the last 20 years?

Absolutely. Same here. Now think about how many times over the course of your life you've done math in your head, using that ability. Uncountable numbers of times. Now imagine a life lived without that ability. Imagine that adding up, over the course of a lifetime. All the errors, all the "I...

I swear some of you are just determined to learn the exactly wrong lessons on this subject. The people who said we'd become stupider when calculators replaced memorizing multiplication tables were exactly right. Ask a random kid today, whats 7x9. Yes. We are becoming stupider at each step...

https://gizmodo.com/study-says-u-s-babies-are-missing-a-key-gut-microbe-fueling-allergy-risk-2000619622On today's episode of "Why are modern humans fucked up?", Their discussion of root causes was pretty lame though We've replaced natural childbirth with elective cesarean sections, and...

I dunno man I'm on board with about 99.99% of fat shaming, but a professional chef putting on a few extra pounds doesnt seem like the worst thing in the world to me

Its shitposting day so I'm not getting worked up about this, but this comment often gets intended in a serious way and it misses the point. Sure, you could argue "Mary" is a made up name too. In theory there was a time far back in the past when someone first named their daughter "Mary". In the...

You misspelled Zendeya But its ok, who can know how to spell a fucked up made up name? I probably misspelled it too

I'm not joking at all. Society is enthusiastically running as fast as it can toward a huge fucking cliff. When I point this out, people tell me get out of the way old man. On second though, I guess pointing out something so funny does count as a joke, even if I didnt mean it as one originally.

Just wait til the next big jump. Your cell phone analogy is perfect. The internet was basically fine until they put it in everybodys pocket. Portable AI powered apps are going to do something similar for the destructive potential of AI. I see a future where the majority of human activity and...

He actually defended doing it too. This is a vision of the very near future. Where everybody just fakes everything with AI generated slop. And then they sincerely try to defend it, saying "yeah but I suck at writing so its ok" Within the next 2 to 3 years there will be wearable glasses with...

Putting aside whether you believe in any religion, I don't think thats a fair summary of their behavior or motivation. Having enough kids to put the population well above replacement levels is what happens naturally if you just fuck and don't interfere with the process. And its generally...

https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/the-global-fertility-crisis-is-worse Our species is literally on track for self inflicted extinction. The fertility crisis is much worse than popular media admits, this article does a very good job of laying out the problem. BUT it ignore variation across...