Just ordinary Capitalist incentives taking priority again. There are unfortunately monetary scams on all levels of Science, and it is breaking Science. All we wanted was a pure Scientific incentive of ‘Closer to Truth’ - not ideological ‘Money before Truth’…

Hm, just a quick thought. Infant animals do get ‘surprised’, but just accepts their environment pretty quickly. Adult animals won’t get surprised if they see themselves in the water, but they will if there’s suddenly a Portal ‘mirror’, showing them selves, in the middle of no-where.

Exploration of ‘self’ only happens in safety and waterholes are not safe for predators. I don’t think most animals have the opportunity/energy to diverge their attention to reflect on their own reflections, while watching for predators. Maybe Elephants and similar safe animals ?

Edit: I think the issue with shadows are the same. Kids can follow, or be scared of their own shadows, but pretty quickly habituates to it, so its brain doesn’t react to it all the time and burn off energy.

Neat question/connection btw.

Not until it explains this: https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/HHFuTpVvRCI

Pure Propaganda. Not a single source in the original article. Nonsense…

It’s fine, but not all cat’s like it (cough) and most owners resort to force, so for many cats/owners it can be a regular traumatic experience anyway. Cats can be trained to deal with it nicely (small calm steps + treats afterwards), but one of my cats still covers her head in my arm pit while I trim her nails. She’s scared shitless of the ‘crunch’…

Perhaps one more thing. Life evolved around converting low Entropy energy (chemistry/narrow sun-rays), into high Entropy energy (black body heat), and in the mean time prosper for a while. So if we want to reverse time, we would both need to apply high Entropy energy to each ‘broken’ component of the early system, so the system can transitions back to a low Entropy state, and incredible luck (to exactly reverse the directional momentum necessary to transition back).

We can’t control/convert/utilize high Entropy energy, and even if we learned far out in the future, it would take even longer to be precise enough to even ‘flip’ an Atom.

Oh, btw. The universe goes from low entropy (‘Big Bang’) towards high entropy, but complexity - where Life can exist - can only happen in the middle, after the prior complexity evolved and before all low entropy energy is dispersed though-out the universe leaving Life with no energy to convert.

Well, I / We may still be wrong, but use of current AI for Philosophical/Scientific questions, propels our knowledge/intelligence to new heights. I think this will continue for a while. There must be millions of people that already feel they have become much smarter by chatting with an AI.

I wonder what effect it will have on a global scale civilization when large parts of the lower ranking population suddenly jumps 20-40+ points up the IQ scale ? Screw rich c*nts and old oppressive societal structures…

It can be a bit difficult with these ‘what if we remove this fundamental force’ questions, because they are so fundamental that the rule screws up further reasoning about the situation, but:

Assuming bonds in a body just ‘disappeared’ by magic: Instant decompression would happen at molecular level.

There would be no puddle or even visible dust. All molecules - mostly H and O - in our body would instantly be de-constructed in to individual atoms - in effect turning into a compressed gas, and I guess that the lighter elements would ‘boil off’ so fast that our whole body of compressed gas would explode rather violently.

More likely the US sabotage of cheap gas from Russia. EU is going down…

Blah blah blah, just dimwitted libertarian propaganda. Who da F**k quotes the Capitalist priest Hayek for anything in 2024 !? What a complete and utter idiot doing this site…

Oh, and someone please remind these dimwitted market fanatic believers that Capitalism, Hayek and all the other fanatics are the CAUSE of our current collapse and 99.99% of all problems we have on any scale…

I feel ‘ideology’ is missing here, but one could oc argue that ideology is secondary if some event or mechanism goes between ideology and the existential risks following it.

Eh… tbh, I didn’t expect to be called out on that one. Perhaps I exaggerated a bit, but in theory, statistically and all… Well, maybe not then, sorry…

He are certainly right about the energy situation, and that the neoliberal EU have shot themselves in both feet energy wise. They thought this would be a new Kosovo gold mine (US/Nato destruction of socialist Yugoslavia), where the liberal cunt’s could turn it into a little corrupt for-profit mini USA. The EU liberal elite really thought they were friends with US, but US doesn’t have friends. Us have temporary business partners, and EU just got completely dumped after they again happily joined the US proxywar against Russia.

However, Russia never ‘invaded Ukraine’, so please put a sock in that old dimwitted propaganda. We are MANY years into this conflict, and there’s NO excuse for still believing the western officials and their THICK and embarrassing propaganda (unless intellectually underpowered oc !!).

So, Russia went in to protect the Ukrainian population in the east, and they have been doing that since day1. Only completely propagandized westerners believe in an ‘Invasion’. Russia went in to protect the eastern population LONG after Ukraine started their civil war against their Russian speaking friends and neighbors. After many many years where the Nuzi regime (sponsored by US/Nato) killed off ordinary eastern Ukrainians in the most brutal way possible, Russia finally had no choice but to enter the east and protect people from an insanely violent western puppet regime. This situation was setup by US (as they usually do), so there could be a public outrage !! and the elite scum could acquire the necessary hate from the population - enough to start a public aggression against Russia. Enough to start a full scale economic, information and military war against a friend/neighbor of China, Russia. Fortunately Russia have completely smashed the western neo-lib aggression, US are pulling out, EU elite is dumb/weak but tries to hang in there, Nato is expected to fall apart, and we all know (should know) that Ukraine is about to lose. In all this, the global south/Bricks - all the bad bad evil non-liberal nations with all their ‘dictators’ are doing fine and so are their populations.

ALL of this can easily be checked out, and it’s oc important to understand why/how Russia was forced to protect one part in the Ukrainian civil war and who is really behind it. I don’t update this playlist anymore, but for those very very few western/liberal people that want to go beyond the primitive propaganda they are being fed by for-profit media, try this: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6-hcqTF_eSc6PIdk3QIwtoxtTK1wr30y Oc as a publisher ArtBerman should have watched the entire playlist a long long time ago…

For more on the liberal/capitalist energy blindness, people should watch Nate Hagens. for more on what’s really going on in Ukraine and the the world, watch ‘The Duran’, ‘New atlas’, ‘military summary’, or read the plans for US global dominance on RAND corporation (and other MIC think tanks) where they are on public display. Read how Ukraine, Iran and Taiwan was going to be misused by US for a WW3. All to defend their free market religion from being pommeled by China with a socialist government (you know, the other bad bad ideology, better for humans, but worse for the oligarch cunts in the west)

…oc there’s is endless sources for non-liberal news and worldviews, but the bottom line: just stay the fuck away from Capitalist for-profit propaganda media and people will do fine…

How horrible is it that 99% of any crypto project can be dismissed as harmful scams without even looking at it - and except for 1% they always turn out to be libertarian wet dreams/scams.

Unfortunately, these Capitalist Psychos uses the same techniques as ‘Scientology’ et al. and are increasingly hiding their true identity/incentives behind their shit project.

They are Capitalist scammers that have found a new revenue stream, and It IS incredible how far these people will go just to protect their initial investment - no matter who’s scammed bco it.

I’m looking for such an alternative, but wouldn’t dream of supporting any bit-scam projects. Thanks for the note/warning !

It’s never nice to discover that what you’ve been told your whole life - was just capitalist propaganda…

Capitalism won’t allow any change or fix of their actions, and it will kill us all :-(

Damn, they are funded by ‘Blockchain founders’, so it won’t take long before it’s just another crapcoin project. They seem heavily invested in just creating their own business and focusing the possibility of letting everybody trade with everybody else (same as in real life). I think they ‘embrace’ open source because they are property-fanatics, but are openly/actively promoting proprietary/property crap directly in their developer/game world. What happens with openness and free mobility for users when they start making money ? Are they gonna lock-in their users ?

I’m interested in a free open source community where shit is free, nobody gets special threats, and everybody can participate without having to pull out their wallet, not a badly masked for profit sandbox. Their idea are inconsistent (bad property=biz, good property=private) and are already infected with coin crap, proprietary (non-federated) services from them (marketplace), a future conflict of interest between users/investors, and an archaic pro biz/capitalist attitude, I’m out…

I was digging a little and just wanted to add a few links: https://www.themirror.space/ and https://github.com/the-mirror-gdp/the-mirror

It looks like a competitor to both Roblox but also meta and vrchat, and even mindcraft. Vrchat is free i think, but they own the data.

I see they’ve adapted the leading OS game engine, Godot, which also let’s our personal AI simulate the real world in real time. I wasn’t particularly happy with this roadmap tho: ‘(Future) Marketplace: Easily monetize your games, 3D models, audio assets, and more with one-time purchases or RevShare.’ It doesn’t take long to convert the project into some shitcoin ‘adventure’ where nothing is done without coin incentives and people behave like it’s all a business.

https://youtu.be/1ViFHv6aq9U

Europeans are glad to be able to replace lost Russian gas supply with LNG imports, and are willing to pay for them.

No, we are not, but our fanatical liberal elite and their followers don’t give a shit about the people that will feel the consequences…