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"One of my predictions, again going back to the assumptions, one of my predictions is that in America in 100 years from now there will be … The complete countryside is run by the Amish.
The Amish take over the entire countryside because they never sell land. They have eight kids and then there's all these people living in the city and it's like everybody's happy. You drive out to the Amish lands and it's just fantastic.
They are very happy doing their thing and running the farms. I have been predicting for years that the Amish would come and start buying upstate New York and that's exactly what they're doing right now."

— Kevin Kelly
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Bret Weinstein once said every civilization comes to a point where it runs into finite resources.

In that world, the worst in people is brought out and winner-take-all strategies unfold.

Bret says we can look at ancient civilizations as examples for dealing with scarcity.
He points out that the Mayans built pyramids and were an unusually old civilization.

As soon as one was finished, they’d begin work on another layer.

The work never stopped.

In this way, the Mayans funded large-scale, non-zero sum games that fed people and gave them meaning.
Bret says humanity needs a new kind of fourth frontier, to avoid the pathological biological tendencies that activate in times of scarcity.

To give people a sense of abundance.

And I wonder, whether video games will become our Mayan pyramid.

They are limitless digital domains.
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Social media has probably accelerated prostitution by a considerable amount.

Young women be out there hustlin’
And men be paying for it when they can’t get it anywhere else.
I don’t know if it’s a good or bad thing, but it’s certainly interesting.
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For the most part, I don’t understand Nassim Taleb’s arguments against IQ.

All I know is that nobody has actually addressed the points he’s made.
I wonder how many years and classes and books it would take before I could develop an intuition for the statistics and probability he knows.

5 years? 6 years of intense study?
More importantly, I don’t suppose it would be interesting to me, unless it has some utility in my life.

I don’t find puzzles interesting unless they have a purpose.
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OK, I'm going to (probably foolishly) have a punt at gaming out what happens in Brexit in the next few weeks. I will certainly be wrong – there are just too many variables to be completely right – but I’d like to test my thinking /thread
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The second half of September will have a lot of interesting Hindi movie releases at the same time.

The one I am most looking forward to is Nandita Das' Manto. Has Nawaz playing the title role. If you liked reading Manto's stories you can't miss it.

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So I’m never drinking again but it’s time for #AlexDrunkHistory! We’re still on the Crimea but we’re also going to sideswipe the Irish Potato Famine and I’m going to introduce you to your next woman crush, the most badass gal in the Crimean War: MARY SEACOLE
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Jinkooooooook~ tHrEaD let's try this bishhh
1) Choose:
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