She is brilliant. Love it. Absolutely loved how she recognizes the limits of knowledge for example. And I totally agree. Even as long as we are mostly earth-based, we can still support immense numbers with much increased technology and some humility in consumption, as opposed to what we have now. Just imagine the carrying capacity of earth and the effect on poverty if people could be as economically productive as FAANG management and live on a budget only a few times higher than poverty. I mean AI makes that thought moot but still. View quoted note →

I've watched pretty much all her interviews. 😁 I agree. She is absolutely brilliant! I highly recommend this book.

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Symbiotic Planet: A New Look at Evolution

Although Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution laid the …

"Humanity has an inherent addiction to what they want and not what they need." Yes, but that is sexual selection. Women won't reproduce with men who don't make the cut. They'd rather stay childless. Which leads to the next generation of men being more-likely to make the cut. We're just taking notice of this dynamic now because the environment has changed so dramatically, that about a quarter to a third of men won't make the next cut. That's brutal. Evolutionary pressure on par with the Bubonic Plague.

It's quite fascinating to observe it play out, in my opinion. Humanity's (or at least the past few generations') seemingly intrinsic need to embrace an overconsumption-based culture has had some very strange and contradictory effects on society. What I find mildly amusing is that no one (or very few) ever seems to want to blame themselves for the state they're in. Social media/technology addiction, laziness, an obsession with the lives of the ultrawealthy, and a continuous rise in the cost of living—and those are just a few things—have created this bizarre culture of narcissism, overconsumption, and victimization. To be blunt, now they're all getting bit in the ass! So many individuals within the 20-35+ age range are broke, can't find employment, or have given up looking for opportunities. There are always opportunities if you look hard enough. For the record, I don't want any of this to sound like a generalization in any way. I know this is not the case for all, but what I described above is quite rampant today.

I was referring to resources as a whole. Not just sexual selection. Sorry, I didn't read the whole thread before I wrote all that. Whoops. Yes, I agree with you. 🤷‍♂️ But, oh well. This isn't the first time this has happened throughout history. The Silent and Boomer generations were able to afford taking care of larger families due to lower living costs, then as time went on and as living costs increased at a significantly faster rate than wages and salaries, fewer and fewer people were able to afford having a family. No one said evolution was a merciful process.

Most women actually also dont make the cut. They have absolute zero evolutionary prowess because they were mostly too busy trying to show men that they can be men too. They are further down the line, closer to the checkered flag of being evolutionarily obsolete than most men because of it. And let's face it, whoever (male or female) owered themselves to being a labrat not 2 years ago, and now has developed the attention span of a fruitfly while they seemingly live like a potato bug (can't hear or see shit) have already failed natural selection. They are now dependents. Leeches on a cyst and angry at people like me for rupturing that cyst because the FIAT poison within it is not their lifeblood. The truth hurts.

100%, but, before sulfanilimide and penicillin, as many as half of men didn't make the cut, every generation. Childbearing-age women just died in childbirth all the time, to the point that men outnumbered women 2:1 in many age brackets (if there hadn't been a major war for a while). Hard to comprehend these days, but that's the environment our cultures evolved in...