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funny that this is what I've been hammering home for a while.
What percentage of homes had air conditioning? More than one bathroom?
What was medical care like in 1950 versus say, 1980, much less 2000.
Things weren't made of plastic in 1950. ( for better or worse )
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@Rocket What kind of dramatic changes do you expect, though?
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@sickburnbro Cable TV was not common until tbe 80s. Home computers did not exist until the late 70s. The changes we have had in the past 75 years are vast. I would still side with the tech bros on this one. The next 75 will have more changes.
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@Rocket cold fusion has been "right around the corner" for longer than everyone reading this has been alive.
Robots doing tasks like lawn mowing is conceptionally no different than having a service do it. Robots are also going to be a much worse version than a human doing it, if robot vacuums is any indication.
Robot vacuums is less of a change than a dish washing machine, simply because the amount of time it frees up.
Any type of computing advancement needs a technology that uses it. This is why we have phones that take way better video than 10 years ago and .. it's kind of like "ok, woo, whatever, this video is in 4k rather than 768 .. "
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@sickburnbro Lots more automation. Self driving cars. There's a lot of stuff that we have the first version of. Future versions will get way better. Vacuum robots. Lawn mowing robots. If there are advances in nanotechnology or quantum computing, then there will
e even bigger changes . Another tech that we've been close to for decades: cold fusion as an energy source.
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@Eleutheria2 @BroDrillard @Rocket By definition IQ is normed to 100, but how you set that norming is what matters. If you set 100 to be America 1900, then you either keep it as that, since it preserves comparisons across time, or you end up going the SAT route where it loses a lot of power.
IQ has little reason to re-norm now because it's already highly controversial and is only used by "bad people"
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@BroDrillard @sickburnbro @Rocket :Ackshually: "Average" IQ will always be at 100, by definition. What changes though is the intellectual prowess that 100 IQ represents. And that is definitely cratering.
On top of the airplane debacle, I'm starting to hear that cruise ships are suffering the same fates. As if there's anything that could make a floating, boomer-containing, incubation tray casino any worse.
I also wonder how much of soil depletion is due to modern waste management. We shouldn't take the India route of "lol what's waste management". But a large amount of compostable food waste sits in a landfill next to old batteries. So we're making our best soil unusable.
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Global avg IQ is sinking and technology is becoming unmanageable by the humans available to manage it. Let's look at how complex systems are doing.
- airplanes: Fuckups everywhere from maintenance and manufacturing of airplanes. Shaniquas piloting planes and doing ATC aren't going to keep mass air travel going. No Concorde anymore.
- software: See all the critical data leaks like millions of SSNs, or the recent security updates that bricked a bunch of computers, and airlines, and everybody else depending on them for days.
- nukes: See the recent post by Simplicius describing how nuke manufacturing at Los Alamos is a shitshow. Nuclear power plants will be the next failure point.
- replication crisis in "sciences" and mostly irrelevant tinkering around the safe edges in hard sciences
- The population is unhealthy, food is unhealthy, soil is depleting.
- Mistakes by doctors is the third leading cause of death, and many of the medications pharma is selling do more harm than good.
- Media and government is lying nonstop. It's hard to know what is true any more. Let's not even talk about ((finance)) and the economy.
- Birth rates among higher IQ populations are cratering.
But every idiot is worrying about climate change which IS a fake problem.
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there’s a difference between environmentalism, which is fundamentally anti-human, and on the other hand, conservation, which means to conserve it for our use and our future use.
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@Eleutheria2 @BroDrillard @sickburnbro @Rocket The kneejerk opposition to environmental causes from many people on the Right has always bothered me. Taking care of the environment is an incredibly White thing to do, as it requires thinking five or ten steps down the road.
Bread up, Bro
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