dimreepr

The point of a paradox is that it can't be real.

Conservative liberalism - Wikipedia Depends on the date/etymology/agenda... 😉 In the old day's that was called <insert religion>... 😉

I've been sat here for nearly an hour trying to think of a good reply to explain the wrongness of that post but, you win +1

The hidden authoritarian is the money we all seek, the spectrum of us runs from, 'I only want enough to buy what I actually need' through 'I only want enough to buy the stuff I think I need' and 'I only want enough to ensure my future' to 'I want enough to win and be declared "champion Industrious mouse in the whole universe"; which kinda makes most of us a bit pathetic. That's the problem with identifying the bad guy's, even politicians and saints are evenly distributed along that spectrum, that's why capitalism slips under the radar of authoritarianism.

But it's a handy way to describe ones general impression, we didn't invent the dictionary in order to smell a rose called Dennis.

Well that joke fell flat on it's face... 😣 We have to accept authority at every level of social interaction, not from every level of social ability; the hidden authoritarian that we face, in our enlightened modern age, is a little girl thats smart enough to know that a quick flash of cleavage is a way to be an influencer and have everyone like it; well, everyone that counts.

No, it's just a thought. That about sums it all up for me +1, though I'm very skeptical... Indeed you can, imagine tomorrow will be very much the same as today; but with extra tech... 😉

That's bc it was never a democracy, it's just a version of the previous autocrat's version of "the perfect authoritarian"; where as the perfect authoritarian is, 'all the people' all of the time... Many people say that a medium can never disappear, bc it's stuck in the middle; medium's just aren't that smart... 🙄

That depends on how badly people need a job, modern slavery is a thing. You should watch or read "The grapes of wrath" by John Stienbeck, for some background on the subject.

Indeed, but it strikes me that a rock falling from a height communicates its decent rather well; if it doesn't strike me, is it even moving? There's your answer, if you think about it properly...

It's not really hidden at all, in whatever society you choose to look; a politician wants authority... 🧐

Indeed, but that's not the point I'm making. Fusion isn't the nirvana we think it might be...

Ok, that's more of a suspicion but you missed a bit “not gonna be cheap" 'for everyone'; if the private sector develop it first, they will charge as much as they can for maximum profit; if a country or group of countries develop it first, they'll want to use the profit to pay a few debts, and they'll want to use it as leverage to collect on a few debts. History suggests to me, that humanity will have very little to do with the price. That's the point I'm making... We know computers work and we know that size isn't, necessarily, the limit of computing power; that means we don't know when/if Moore's law will hit the buffers. I think the analogy still work's bc we can't know that there is a when for fusion; much like the sentient computer, theoretically possible.

Maybe, but the rest of that post does. I'm not claiming that there's a tea-pot orbiting Mars.

Our little anthropocene depends on eternal progess, it's like Moore's law on steroids. That's just blind faith that a/ we can travel far enough through the tunnel to see light again, and b/ the light we see isn't just a torch, and even c/ this is not a tunnel... I'm not shifting the burden of proof, how can I? I'm not claiming that there's a tea-pot orbiting Mars...

That depends on which end of the cutlery you view the problem. For instance, how often are we required to believe in the disease before we pay for the cure?

Do you have evidence to the contrary?

What's that got to do with intelligence?

We, in Britain have been testing this hypothesis recently by throwing all of our shit into all of our river's; it turns out that most of us are sick of it...

Only if you can get it to work...

I do indeed, it's similar to 'not all shit is a good furtiliser'...😉

They're not considered intelligent either...

This is where religion gets caught up in the maelstrom of reality, anyone who calls for calm is seen as manipulating the sheeple for their own end's; few people wonder why it's wrong to be happy with the herd...

We don't know that it's possible, sustainably, on Earth; a wormhole is possible, how much of our finite pot of money should we spend on that research? How big a dataset do we need before we concede, that it's not a valuable line of enquiry? What's that got to do with fusion? If there's one thing we can be sure of with fusion, it might be 'cleanish', but it's, as sure as shit, not gonna be cheap, for everyone...

I'm in a quandary, I could answer, not all in nature that seems intelligent is, in fact, intelligent; but that would just encourage you to keep bleating about how inteligent you are, to have spotted something clever that the experts, with all their knowledge and intelligence, can't see. That's also true in an academic sense, people that don't learn science, do not abound as scientists... 🧐