Thanks!

isn’t the atmosphere transparent for most of the light, though? (except UV, but that gets filtered out even at the equator, so it’s the same everywhere again)

Nothing really stuck with me i would say as i’m more careful what “advice” or “feedback” i actually take to heart; but there have been many incidents where people have blamed me for shit.

i don’t really want to recount them here because they are personal.

It’s not about “forgiveness”, it’s about whether the mistakes can be undone.

Consider you accidentally insult somebody. That can be undone by apologizing.

What if you murder somebody? That can never be undone.

“though your path may be set, you can gain as much speed down that path as you would like”

means, even if they had to go to war, they could have missed shots on purpose.

tldr

no often today we don’t know what the code is actually doing

yes this is an important problem

no nobody really seems to take it as serious as it should be taken today

no i’m not gonna change that over night

i think we just have different notions about what “art” is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngZ0K3lWKRc

that video is from 2016 though? AI has improved significantly since then?

edit so i just watched the video, and miyazaki says it’s about believing in the abilities which we humans have, and while i agree, actually believing in technology (that humans create) does not contradict that. if anything, it might extend it.

i’ve seen the same legends :)

Roko’s Basilisk, isn’ it?

that’s the anarchic stance. mine was more a chemical/technical one.

social media. It’s a mind virus

I agree. Ideas in general are like a virus living in our brains. (They mostly consist of small packages of information. They require a host for metabolism / real effect. They spread from human to human.) The internet facilitates the spreading of these viruses; which often overwhelms the participating humans. In theory, it can/will also lead to a lot of innovation, because ideas spread more rapidly/easily. In practice, i think it does, but it also leads to virus-infection-like / fever-like symptoms, including: nausea, feeling of weakness (whenever reading political news).

I agree with you.

who we truly are, free to love, free to wonder, free to explore, free to be alive, free to be just happy. It isn’t worth it if we aren’t happy. We need to find out happy place again if we’re going to survive the next few centuries.

What you’re describing here, i call “self-determination”. Being who/what you truly are. It’s incredibly important, maybe the most important thing we have to consider.

oh society has lots of problems.

trying to fit it into one comment can be difficult but i can list some issues that i perceive:

• there’s no long-term plan. none at all. nobody has an idea what humanity will look like in 100+ years. that leads to considerable uncertainty in the youth, which definitely makes their mental health difficulties more severe.

I really agree with your point. However:

First of all, it’s reduce, reuse, recycle.

Nobody implied that recycling would solve everything. (at least i didn’t, i don’t know about what other people said)

Secondly, plastics is actually less of a problem than people think. Plastics is essentially non-toxic, or has a similar toxicity than wood, grass, and other carbohydrates. So essentially non-toxic. The fact that there is traces of it in your blood is not surprising, because our detection systems these days are very sensitive and can detect even the tiniest amounts.

The additives are the problem, and they should either be forbidden or strictly regulated.

The point that “chemical recycling is infeasible” is wrong. It used to be financially infeasible because the energy required to recycle was many times more expensive than just buying crude oil and making new plastics. Nowadays, however, that might change, depending on how cheap solar energy turns out to become over the next 10 years.

Furthermore, i guess Aluminum and glass are actually often worse for the environment, because while they could be recycled close to 100% when properly collected, such a good collection system is totally unreasonable and off the bat IMO. Consider: if there’s one stupid guy who throws a lead acid battery into the recycle container, all of you now have lead poisoning for the rest of your lifes. It’s a medical hazard.

Additionally, the problem with plastic waste in the environment is a problem of insufficient regulation, not with the plastics itself. Plastics can be burned very close to 100%, so it leaves no traces. Different than say nuclear which leaves back toxic waste. Additionally, burning plastics releases close to 100% of the energy stored in it, so it could be used as a fuel. In the future, optimized plastics power stations might burn plastics in the winter to generate energy to compensate for lower solar energy. That’s why i’m actually in favor of collecting all plastics in gigantic landfills, because it might become a very valuable resource later on.

i think it’s reconsider (buying this product), reuse, recycle

thanks for sharing your perspective. i feel like i’m starting to understand what you all would have felt like.

was it really that big of a deal? i’m european and can’t really understand whether people want to make it seem like such a big deal, or whether it actually really had anything to do with most people’s lifes?

was that isn’t how you spell Wednesday? how else would you spell it?

edit: oh shit i mistook “spelling” for pronouncing