@bayeslord aesthetic minimalism is a luxury of ppl who can always go buy more, from stores that are always stocked, with money that is always good

@bayeslord rich people are actually better in some important ways, belief in the noble poor is cope- life isn't that fair

@bayeslord losing old growth forests, extinction of species we've not even named, desertification... ecological destruction is a tragedy that's not easily reversed even with tech acceleration

@bayeslord VR depresses me bec missing scent n touch but it'll be good enough to become widespread and the next generation won't even know what they lost... i worry that AI may do the same sort of thing to emotional intimacy - and i don't even know how to gesture at what might be lost

@bayeslord i actually kinda like Yud and think he's more intellectually honest than most of his midwit doomer followers

@bayeslord assortative mating is probably net negative 😬 nerds should stop segregating into separate communities and instead do the work to relate to normies