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(bolded mine) The question was inspired by Assimov and explored in his foundation series, if we accept the premis that we tend to get more conservative as we age, then there would be a great deal of difference between a populace that die before that trend takes hold and a populace that has 950 year's for that trend to get a stranglehold. Does that mean, I can't meet my friend at 2 o'clock today?

That's what makes a pseudo-democracy, a true democracy resets every year...

What makes you think they didn't build their new aircraft carrier with a slanty eye on the American skill set? Reminds me of Agincourt.

Unfortunately Russia isn't lead by a 'rational' sociopath.

China wants to aquire Taiwan, but why would they go to war when they're still negotiating the price?

They're taught how to "play nice", when they play with their mother. Perhaps; but some people, who have no family and weren't loved, find meaning anyway; the most satisfying food is tasted when you're hungry, even if it's a half eaten burger you found in a bus shelter, that smelt of piss and vomit (especially if you're pallet is highly refined). It's a ying yang thing, if you've never loved, you'll never know hate. I'm just trying to teach you, my understanding.

This raises an interesting philosophical question; we trust more and more knowledge, with fewer and fewer people to advance 'our' understanding of... If we can't understand the product of what we've built, how can we trust it?

You can never visualise a foreign language until you speak it, fluently; but you can learn... 😉

I think we're well past feeding time...

You don't know, is kinda the point...

You assume to much; for instance, why would a binary random answer be greater than 50%?

I don't; it might be a tautology but sometimes that's the only answer there is.

Name one, and please include, how you know. A demonstration is very different to an explanation (a demonstration is, most often, far easier) due to language unspoken; if you tell me what you think piety mean's, it will give me a better chance to explain what I mean. Please read the thread again, but this time read it, without your filters/bias/ego, as if you want to learn (and yes you need to want too). Philosophy isn't about being right, it's about knowing your own foibles and applying that understanding to other's, you can't teach until you've understood the lesson...

Unfortunately, he lacks a map...

I can only assume that you haven't read any of this thread, because all of your points have already been covered, in far more detail; it's a bit rude to assume you have anything to add too a two page thread, by answering the OP; given the simplicity of your post.

Then why the argument?

Of course secrects can be kept, I'm keeping my identity secret from you... 😉 If you read again you'll note the brackets (that matter) which is meant both sarcastically and factually... How do you know that? Most secrets were still guarded, long after the war, unless it was good propaganda to leak...

We can't even be sure of dolphin's and we've been talking to them for 50ish years... The ultimate barrier is language; how could a dolphin tell you what it feels like to be a dolphin and if we're so special; we'd be able to tell them what it feels like to be a dave...

LOL, funny how it work's, isn't it; Bill Clinton couldn't keep a secret (that mattered) that only one other person "knew", what chance a secret known by many 10's/100's/1000's etc.?

Time and gravity are just directions, it's only when YOU move that the direction has any influence on YOU; an oversimplification but it's a good place to start your education.

People still need to be taught how to cooperate and help each-other, which is better done from a moral POV; imagine a world taught by Jeff Bezos/Trump et al using their moral compass, no wait... 🤔 You're conflating religion with politics, those in the know understand what piety really mean's...

Good point, what level of comunication, with our universe, is required for sentience to emerge? And what level of communication is required for us to recognise a fellow sentient?

It wouldn't make me not a troll...

Did you ever hide under a bridge?

Sunak needs more money??? It's also hard to see a positive legacy from the next person who picks up the challis... "all they we now need is a cake, we can share in." FTFY An economy needs it's population to spend (because we can tax that); guess what would be better for our economy: A poor person (most of us), who has enough to live on, with a little left over and spend every last cent (for pleasure). Or A rich person, who is afraid of the cake???