There is too much people in the world already.. We have all the bright people we need already, we just need to cater and take care for the ones already here..
Until we can get around and have everyone already here feed and sheltered we should stop multiplying like rabbits..
in my opinion 1 kid is enough, 2 kids tops.. that is more then enough to keep us (humanity) around for a long time..
This is true at the global level, and especially in the 3rd world, but not in the developed societies most of us are living in.
The Flynn effect reversed sometime in the mid 80s.
The pattern is currently for less educated people and people in worse financial situations to have more children than those more well off.
That's significantly concerning given we have extensive evidence genes matter more than environment does in humans:
It is far more efficient in the long run for that trend to invert, and the average intelligence of the population plays a huge role in facing the challenges of the future successfully.
Pretending this is not a significant and increasingly dire problem does nothing but avoid confrontation with hard truths.
people in worse financial situation have more kids because many die before reaching adulthood.. they also need more people around to work and help pay for basic stuff that are just expected in developed countries.. like food, water, shelter, electricity, sewage, etc..
that was the same in the past of the now called developed countries, but as overall economy improved more people had access to better medicine, child mortality decreased and people raised above misery, all that mean that families did not had the need for as many kids as before..
In fact having more kids now can be detrimental in many places because kids can be expensive to raise..
So not only having many kids is no longer a necessity, it can be a financial burden that many families cannot take and lets be realistic that will not change anytime soon..
All in all i do not see why we should not make an effort ensure the people in worst financial situation have their situation improved.. And for the less educated people to be more educated.. And that not only in undeveloped countries but everywhere..
Last, but not least.. Let me tell you something.. People in undeveloped countries are just as smart as people anywhere else if you give then the change to achieve their full potential..
So i maintain my opinion.. we should worry to feed and shelter the people already here before we worry about reproducing like rabbits.. people can do wonders if they do not have to worry about their next meal..
But, again being realistic, i do not see any of this changing anytime soon as well.. but one can dream..
and i will not even comment on the racist implication that people in developed countries have better genes just because they are from developed countries..
GPS is a passive system.
The satellites in orbit emit a constant location and identifier signal perceivable from the ground.
A GPS positioning device looks for and reads those signals and then performs a triangulation calculation.
Spoofing these signals means outputting identical but incorrect ones either from your own constellation of satellites or from ground-based arrays/emitters.
Typically military hardware expects a certain level of spoofing and has it's own built-in countermeasures/security checks so effective jamming/spoofing means successfully navigating these countermeasures either through brute force or accurate intelligence.
1. Paternity. Sometimes it's tragic when an otherwise good father learns he's not the father. The truth was very inconvenient to the established narrative.
2. Heritability of 'problem' genes in patients/families who request sequencing.
You can't really tell a wealthy family that they're both MAOA2/4R carriers and explain what that means without ruffling a ton of feathers.
Great discussion.
Worrying implications for western society though.
If Caplan is right, and the data says he is, the declining birth rate among the wests richest and smartest is a death knell.
Also, it would suggest we radically re-evaluate the usefulness of almost all redistribution programs.
If outcomes are almost entirely genetic, we get far more efficient results by getting the rich/smart to have more kids than by trying to uplift the downtrodden.
DNA and whole-life outcomes have been an extremely contentious conversation, but one that's worth having, and any actor with more data is going to be able to make more fruitful insights.
A person (or, let's be honest here, nation state) with a large collection of DNA sequences tied to real-life persons has two major advantages:
1. They can draw statistical correlations between what individual genes and gene clusters are associated with economic performance and which are not.
2. They can identify genetic susceptibility/vulnerability. More benignly to things like chronic addiction, gambling, alcohol, nutrient deficiency, susceptibility to environmental effects etc. In a more conspiratorial direction it can form targeting data for weaponized/tailored bioweapons once those make their way onto the public stage.
The 'ringing' sound people hear isn't actually a sound. It is how the brain processes signals produced by damaged Stereocilia.
If the 'ringing' is constant it means the cilia are permanently damaged. While it would, in theory, be possible to use surgery on the ear and some sort of lazer to completely remove all damaged cilia to avoid them outputting a damaged signal, this procedure would be incredibly invasive and risky. I don't believe it's ever been done and i would find it hard to believe any Otolaryngologist willing to try.
I'm not a doctor but I have good hearing, and heard a friend's tinnitus. Apparently they had a constant muscle spasm that was causing a "buzzing" sound, and if you listened carefully, you could hear it. They eventually got it botoxed and that fixed it (injections 2-3 times a year I think, ongoing).
There's a trick which I can't recall the name of, which involves thumping your fingers across the back of your neck, which temporarily resolves tinnitus in some people. I have very mild tinnitus, and have noticed that that does quiet it.
This is a question for everyone I suppose, but does anyone know why that works? Could it be possible to develop an implant or something which generates the same effect?
I thought that works because it creates a complex of sensations that overload your audio “tract”. For example if I do the described trick without isolating/covering my my ears with palms, it does nothing. The difference is not in pressure, but in the fact whether I can/can’t deep-hear the punches that my fingers create. Not a doctor, but something tells me there’s more to that. All scans shown that I have zig-zagged vessels in my neck, but within what they see as a “norm”.
I went to a lot of loud concerts when I was younger and just assumed that I had tinnitus from those, and until now, I had no idea there were multiple causes of tinnitus.
I had assumed this was incurable but if my tinnitus is from tight neck muscles, that seems fixable. I'm going to reach out to my doctor about this. Thank you, I think you might have just greatly improved my life.
When you twist your head around, do you hear a grinding noise? For me, it’s almost like a cardboard box being dragged across a sandy floor. It is a real noise because I’ve been able to record it with my phone.
I also have tinnitus. I wonder if it’s all related?
In your case, it might just be. Tinnitus due to TMJ, tight neck muscles, etc is very common, and in all those cases it is curable by treating the underlying mechanical issues.
>While it would, in theory, be possible to use surgery on the ear and some sort of lazer to completely remove all damaged cilia to avoid them outputting a damaged signal, this procedure would be incredibly invasive and risky.
It sounds like what we need is nanobots to do this surgery.
It's because they're only trying to prove a single thing:
At scale, perpetually buying into a stock across a period beats mass buying into a stock at any one point in a period where future results are unknown.
Nobody has free will therefore:
-We have an obligation to be kind.
-Kindness doesn't 'work' at scale.