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War accelerated evolution, it’s why it exists.

So did compassion, probably in a greater amount. And yet the greater amount of resources goes into war at the expense of compassion.

Humanity has taken control of its own evolution and no longer relyies on natural selection to be the driving force for change. Using evolution as an excuse to make bad and immoral choices is a poor argument and should be left back in the stone age.


Yes, the social darwinist approach inevitably lead to eugenical thinking and the human meat grinder that follows. We, as being with the capacity to understand harmful v. non-harmful behaviour, have a consequence to harmful behaviour, collectively: human suffering and the suppression of freedom.

>Humanity has taken control of its own evolution

Has it taken full control of it or just partial control?


You have cause and effect mixed up.

I have just the opposite reaction.

I read "Shakspear" as a combination of Shaquille O'Neal and William Shakespeare.

To dunk or not to dunk.

I’d pay to see Shaq on broadway.


Interactive is generous - more like labeled. Interesting but was expecting more.

Open to ideas on how more 'interactive' we can make it. But yeah, fair point. Maybe it's just more 'annotated'

I'd argue there may be an increase in value over time if the community handles the fork well.

And you’d get laughed at for that argument.

Bitcoin core devs do not make decisions for the distributed network. Yes they have outsized power but with the whole BIP110 thing going on now and Bitcoin Knots gaining adoption, I'm more confident now that sudden changes from the core devs will not be blindly accepted by all. That aside, it will be necessary to hard fork the chain from a point before a quantum attack, but there will be several proposals and the community will vote with their nodes.

Presumably, the hardware to run this level of model will be democratized within the timeframe of the parent comment.


Em dashes, “it’s x, not y”, excessive emojis and arrows.

Especially where the emoji serves practically no purpose other than to get your attention. If it is especially abstract what the emoji is there to represent, I start looking for other signs

With your romantic partner, I assume, as the author mentioned for no apparent reason.

Dark UI pattern on install. Hits you with sub screen after prompting user for preferences. Uninstalled immediately.

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