🐱TheCat @ WheeGeetheCat @sh.itjust.works

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same I attribute some of my success to the fact that our computer lab teacher provided cracked versions of adobe and 3dsmax. Well over 10K in software and this is in the 90's

Meh, how is surgery a thing? You let people just open you up and dig around your insides?

it's a mix of need and belief in a proper vetting process. For computers there's the additional layer that any one machine is probably low stakes. In early internet days most software was prohibitively expensive but gave you the equivalent of super powers - as a teenager / young adult with ability to take that risk you're not going to do it?

Perfect, no notes

As someone who contributed to the 'high level of attrition' during a forced return to office: it was my pleasure and I'll do it again.

This is pretty much it

I feel we have been taught to ignore the social contract and compete with each other for survival instead by the increasingly capitalist structures among us.

Also, in most countries a smaller proportion of the population is 'bought in'. Home ownership is way down. A lot of days, I kind of passively hope for collapse because the status quo is shitty. So there's little incentive to uphold the social contract for me because there's little hope it will result in a good outcome for me.

And this makes perfect sense and is predicted. As wealth inequality rises, social contract breaks down

we also have the capability to save not only ourselves but literally every other species

yet to be shown. We assume we can turn this around

He was just better concealed behind the propaganda. he's always been a POS

There's no evidence he did any such thing. He's like Trump - he just lies and hopes no one fact checks. He refuses to provide evidence and we've had reporting that the US government is actually the one paying

This one seems to make even hardcore gamers hate it with difficulty. Seems similar to rain world a bit? I own rain world but have barely played

I've played both.

Obra Dinn is better for me, but I enjoyed both

Have you played Return of Obra Dinn? Also Inscryption, the creator is half mad

okay why doesnt the oral histories of other species count? They seem to pass down tradition and behavior for just as long, and we cannot observe their inner beliefs about more than that. So why are you assuming only humans do it?

Cetaceans have a structure in their brain that we don't have that MIGHT allow them to experience life as a group. That is different than internet but not WORSE just because it doesnt require an external tool. Why are you obesssed with a way of being that 'CHANGES THE WORLD' so that you go extinct?

We'll agree that our 'tool intelligence' doesn't make us wise at least

I think its like bigfoot / mothman etc - once someone in your area is talking about seeing a thing, it increases the likelihood you will think you saw that thing specifically next time you see something that would be otherwise unexplainable to you

oh okay, I'd disagree with that take but fair. I think most humans are generally unaware they are getting dumber though, and possibly from the pollution of all that 'amazing tool creation'. A lot of the progress man made as before, we've been resting on our laurels lately and offloading mental tasks to technology and our species may be dumbing down

I just want to pick you peoples brains at this point.

• Humans have had internet for less than 100 years, whales have had sonar and whale song for millions of years, allowing communication and thought sharing over spaces humans weren't capable of.
• So then, were whales smarter than humans up until the moment we gained internet?
• Internet can easily be taken away from you leaving you weak and helpless, whales can't be separated from their internet.

Human survival strategy is very min/max glass cannon right now - we are dependent on complex, unsustainable, rapidly degrading systems for survival yet feel superior to other animals for those very same systems. Seems profoundly dumb to me in a way we fail to see because we are so obsessed with our intellect.

As I said in another comment, maybe it can be said 'we are most intellectual' species but its in a kind of rain man way where we lose other necessary wisdom about how to survive long term on the planet.

Maybe content was the wrong word, animals just don’t care about advancing technology or growing.

My last point is that you literally can't know what animals care about, and its weird you keep asserting you do. I think you mean that evolution selects based on reproduction, and thats true for humans as well. So do humans only care about reproduction? If so, then we can say they are exactly equal to animals.

Again humans are biased towards methods that use artifacts/tools.

If you're a whale underwater your whalesong is as good as the internet, but whatever its not a physical object and its a totally sustainable method that doesn't require harvesting half the planet so WE DGAF, doesn't count!

Its just so reductive and I couldn't disagree more. We learn how to use our tools by emulating nature.

Example: Humans and dolphins use sonar, but dolphins use it better (we are learning from their example): https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180531102742.htm

If your idea is true, humans would immediately be 'smarter' at using sonar than dolphins the second we gained the ability to do it.

But shocker, the animal that's been using it for millions of years has learned better ways to do it. And we get better by copying them. And without them, we (and our ability to use sonar) would be lessened forever.

Most animals are content with the natural order

WTF haha, there's no way for anyone to know that.

This strikes me as an example of as in/ought fallacy in that you assuming because most animals living on the planet in a sustainable manner are doing so because they want to, and not for any of a million other reasons up to and including that the species who don't live sustainably simply go fucking extinct.

I think you are mixing up biologics with lack of culture.

Can you expand on what you mean by this? What does a biologic mean in this context and who lacks culture? Here's the definition of biologics I know of

FWIW I don't enjoy being contrarian on this and I'm open to smoothing my opinion. Agreed that critical thinking is a crucial skill and more important than this