JRN

Philosophy × Technology × Energy × Politics. Insights on innovation, sustainability, AI, and the future of human flourishing. Curiosity-driven, Truth-seeking.

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@clairlemon Answe - Stop being propagandists and investigate the claims genuinely. Dont just parrot the Dem talking points

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Ask any 60 year old if they were unplanned... over 50 % will tell you yes. It is availability and social acceptance of modern contraceptives. It's a biological mismatch. We only survived because of unplanned pregnancies amoung young women - it's the rationale choice for individuals to delay pregnancies but it is fatal for the species.

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@CaitlinPacific It’s more difficult than people give fathers credit for

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@_alice_evans Agree - it is happening everywhere - I suggest it might be widespread availability and social acceptability of modern contraception https://t.co/c0aQxKmzTr

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@Noahpinion Points to some cause other than economic or cultural - it is happening everywhere... maybe availability and social acceptance of modern birth control? https://t.co/c0aQxKmzTr

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@TotemMacro https://t.co/c0aQxKmzTr

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The fact that fertility decline is happening across most societies is another reason that this Financialization argument is probably wrong - I have another theory - availability and moral acceptability of modern birth control is another factor - ask anyone over 60 if they were an accident and at least 50 % would say yes!

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@USMNT @CocaCola rainbow is surrender

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@USMNT @CocaCola USMNT. - why the rainbow numbers? Are you trying to alienate 50% of the population. Completely unnecessary! Stop it.

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@CynicalPublius @musepwt excon nepo baby

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@MoreBirths this might help?

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Military pensions are awesome - my Dad retired at 37 as an Army Major - Field Artillery - started as a computer in 1960 in Germany at 17. Vietnam in 1967 in the jungle as a forward observer in 1st Cav. His pension started when he was 37 and has had inflation adjustments since then. On top of that he is 100 % DAV so no tax or healthcare costs or future long term care costs. I haven't done the calculation but this has to be one of the best pensions ever. He totally deserves it - all 12 months in the jungle, not back in Saigon.

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@DirtyTesLa yes, major step back with 14.3.3 on strange jittery behavior with school buses and emergency vehicles - one time had a hard brake just passing a school bus waiting to enter road - no lights flashing and there was a car fairly close behind me.

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30 years ago - these schools were IQ proxy's - particularly for engineering. You had to have a 750 to 800 math SAT to get in, so at least it proves you had high IQ, the schools were still giving somewhat reasonable grading so if you had over a 3.5 is showed you had grit. I worked for a multinational oil co, we screened by school and GPA - of course it wasn't perfect but overall it worked and the results are obvious.

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@I_Anachronous @PeterDiamandis I would appreciate it if you could read the essay I wrote and critique it - I'm in the wilderness here

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@I_Anachronous @PeterDiamandis I'll keep working on mine, you keep working on yours! We do need an answer before the robots potentially make it worse...

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The old framework seems broken - the cognitive class is thriving, overall poverty is down (a good thing!) but somehow people are not happy (Aristotle definition - eudaimonia). Evidence - very high levels of envy, mental health epidemic, and low TFR - something is wrong. Modernity v Human Nature?

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From my X Article of March 25. The Machines Broke US, Will the Robots Fix Us?- last paragraph

VIII. The Question Left Standing

The last man, at the end of the industrial era, floats.
He has provision. He has rights. He has options. He has a screen that answers every silence before the silence can ask anything of him.

He is technically free. Technically safe. Technically provided for.

And he is running out of reasons.

The first man of the abundant era will have no scarcity to hide behind.

The robot will have removed the oldest alibi. The question will stand naked, unavoidable, no longer deferred by the necessity of work:

What is a human life for?

Evolution has not written one answer. It has written into us the needs any worthy answer must meet : the hunger to belong, to matter, and to be needed by someone real.

Whether the civilization we build after the robots arrive will hear those needs — or bury them beneath managed comfort and optimized distraction — that is what is at stake.

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