Lemmy World

Reductionist?

Agreed. We made the nuke before the compound bow because precision machining wasn’t that easy to do, but one we got it down, tools changed rapidly.

Not OP but I’ll try to hop in.

How do you deal with non-empirical questions?

While religion isn’t the only solution science definitely won’t help and logic can only tell you if structure of thought is true but not its premise content.

So, your are left with 3 options:

1. Ignore them an go about your life
2. Pick some faith based belief structure to assist in answering them
3. attempt to use science/logic with no faith based belief structure so your assumptions are entirely you and thus functionally creating your own personal religion

Thanks I’ll claim it tomorrow when I have access to a PC.

Appreciate you

Vampire Survivors if you have one.

KotoR would be great otherwise:)

Appreciate it either way.

Didn’t the hotel lady have one of these in Hot Fuzz?

Logic.

The best part of this response is, “you know nothing of me, but I who also know nothing of you can judge you.”

???

You are lucky enough to be in a position to prepare for and seize opportunities. Your take on luck seems to be driven by Survivorship Bias.

It is possible I misread, long day at work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill

A little of the above and a lot of not wanting to starve to death.

“Other duties as assigned” is the bane of my existence

I love the digital library idea. Sadly, given the state of the US we would see folks on the street going

“The govs online libraries make kids want to be trans” or something like that.

Probably the classics.

Laws enforcing how public transit is provided. They literally kept a station open for a single high school student.

Public health is top notch, it goes above and beyond for patients, be they citizens or not.

While suicide is high in Japan, it’s considered a public policy and social failure than a personal one so the government dumps money into improving suicide help.

Waste sorting and just general cleanliness.

Fair. As a halfbreed myself I can say it’s awful if you are not Japanese.

They do have some really kickass laws though.

Perfection

I didn’t have one. I was asserting the idea that people were going to attack your post for saying “Use AI.”

Nah that’s clearly a pair of franks and some change.

I hear where you are coming from, but you just said “Use AI” on Lemmy. This should be fun 😁

I am happy to concede that point.

That said, in the US, evidentially speaking, the current administration has a near all time low in approval.

I am not convinced the veto panels would be any worse off than the current administration in terms of approval.

There are a few ways that the Socratic position (epistocracy) could be implemented and he covers them in the book. I am partial to a panel of experts that can only veto laws in their area of expertise.

For example. Congress passes a law to allow offshore drilling and the climate change panel vetos it.