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This seems about as likely as humans becoming infinite

Religiosity is most likely tied to our tribal tendencies and adherence to group norms and mores. Members of the tribe who acted and behaved in ways contrary to local social expectations tended to find themselves ostracized or separated from the group and so consequently lost access to food, protection, and access to mates for reproduction (I.e. they were selected against). Cooperation and shared explanatory narratives fed cohesion, basically. Belief in god(s), however, is slightly different than religiosity and is far more likely related to our abilities around mental rehearsal of interactions with unseen others and our tendency while young toward accepting stories from parents and tribal elders.

Number of humans isn’t the issue. As others have mentioned, it’s how we use our resources. Reducing our numbers doesn’t solve that challenge.

Yes, sometimes even all at once.

My worldview is a work in progress, evolving, not static. Changes with experience and based on context. <insert random Nietzsche quote>

W.I.P.

Untrue! 🥸

Spending more time outdoors in motion and getting exercise coupled with consistent good sleep is no panacea, but they do hit the intended target rather often and forcibly

How to change everything? Just wait.

That works. I was mostly trying to be cognizant that not all religions are the same. I was trying to account for Buddhism etc. and focus more on those which suggest women were made from a man’s rib and silly stuff like that.

We use it for convenience because saying “best currently accepted internally and externally consistent provisionally validated model” doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue. Things can be true within certain context and parameters, but much like proofs are for maths, truths tend to be for tyrants.

Someone is having a good time with the neg button. Maybe it’s Wanda and the Vision

Entirely fair point Probably doesn’t matter since facts can be alternative. The speaker of the house himself was outside the NYC courtroom (cosplaying as DJT, no less) suggesting that the US Justice system is rigged and cannot be trusted. Trump got a gag order from the judge telling him to stop attacking witnesses, so elected GOP officials are doing it for him. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30706498/ https://www.psypost.org/faith-and-conspiracy-study-shows-religiosity-is-related-to-belief-in-covid-19-conspiracies/ https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/07/27/what-drives-belief-in-conspiracy-theories-a-lack-of-religion-or-too-much There are scores of others and far better ones available, though TBH I considered my point to be largely self-evident when making it. Hopefully this satisfies you and we can move back into the meat of the topic in this thread.

Biden still has higher holdings in the war-chest overall, but (as per the latest released numbers) in April Trump pulled in more (gross) for the first time (mostly due to a Palm Beach event). https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-campaign-raises-51-million-april-down-march-2024-05-21/

Almost paradoxically, exposure to abrahamic religious thinking often primes and predisposes the mind to accept such blatantly problematic, anbsurd, non viable assertions as valid.

And yet he’s polling head to head and out fund raising Biden The reich alignment seems to be more feature than bug

Start implanting chips in people’s brains and control what they show, including genAI fictional content to reinforce the baseline narrative at every chance

In what ways, specifically?

Have you considered asking AI for recommendations?

Nothing exploded. Nothing imploded. The universe itself expanded in all directions. There is no outside the universe. There is no before the universe. We're talking about spacetime so time itself didn't yet exist given current models. We clearly have more to learn, and will hopefully arrive upon improved models in the future. For now, however, humans are apes and our tiny ape brains evolved to understand survival in the savannahs and reproduction in the trees and these cosmic inflationary concepts don't generally lend themselves to simple visualization. The map is not the territory and we're looking right now at maps.

I’m unclear what you’re planning to compare, and what “its” refers to here. Will you please clarify?

I’m sorry. I have no idea what you’re talking about, and I believe the core explanatory reason is because neither do you.

Referendum decision making in governance is the fastest way to agree to increase government spending on social programs by 5,000% or more while in parallel agreeing to bring taxes down to zero. Because magic is how things get paid for apparently.

What type of intelligence?

Maybe try a sub stack instead of a science forum (I.e. this is not a blog)