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Random comment, a recommendation: Plague, Inc. is a great game. It's like Pandemic II, but better and more fun.
I highly recommend it.
I highly recommend it.
While We Wait: Writer's Block & Other Lame Excuses
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Daftpanzer
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Partly I may be attention seeking again, but I am genuinely taking an interest in people and views like this: (look how people laugh around the 5 min mark)
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From a more metaphysical viewpoint, I can see systems failing because they have become obstacles to the evolution of human consciousness and experience. The only constant is that we will always keep evolving, and all obstacles and will eventually overcome. Stale and dysfunctional systems will always fall apart eventually.
That's not how evolution works though. 
Evolution is a very specific kind of heritable change, and it only really applies when we're talking about genetics. Changes in cultural mindsets and awareness and such are a whole different kettle of fish- they're certainly likely to happen, but I don't see a lot of evidence that such changes will have to take place through collapse.
Evolution is a very specific kind of heritable change, and it only really applies when we're talking about genetics. Changes in cultural mindsets and awareness and such are a whole different kettle of fish- they're certainly likely to happen, but I don't see a lot of evidence that such changes will have to take place through collapse.
Symphony D.
Deity
Where have I heard about the Organic Theory of the State before? Oh. Ohhh...
das
Regeneration In Process
That's not how evolution works though.
Or that they would be "progressive" or have anything to do with evolution of human consciousness - you'd think the 20th century would be a pretty convincing refutation of those 19th century utopian theories. Lamarck isn't really much in the intellectual world's favour anymore, either.
I don't doubt the economy is based on "imaginary value" and will collapse sooner or later, mind you. All things end eventually. That's not really a very meaningful revelation, though. Your "sooner or later" or "eventually" might well take centuries, rendering it irrelevant to the current debate (which I admittedly have zero interest in).
Crezth
i knew you were a real man of the left
Daftpanzer
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WE'LL SEE, remember you saw it here first.
I didn't mean Evolution in a biological sense, but you know well yeah.
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I didn't mean Evolution in a biological sense, but you know well yeah.
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Eltain
Deity
That's not how evolution works though.
Ahh, but what happens when the fish from each Kettle inter-breed? What happens when they mix together and can't be told one from the other?
What then?
das
Regeneration In Process
I'm sorry if you thought I was implying otherwise.
All economics more complex than simple barter are based almost purely on arbitrary belief, yes.
Crezth
i knew you were a real man of the left
Luckymoose
The World is Mine
Isn't barter also based on arbitrary belief?
Biologically speaking, the cultural mindset fish is a different species than the evolution fish, and thus they cannot interbreed. There is only a limited chance of selective pressures driving these two different lineages into convergent evolution that would make them physically indistinguishable, and even then one could identify them through straightforward molecular biology.
My folksy turns of phrase will stand up to your simplistic prodding.
Arbitrary belief with someone you can kick in the groin, which could theoretically serve as a useful check/balance.
Luckymoose
The World is Mine
Nuke is a nail in the NESing coffin. He is a cancer that should be expunged.
das
Regeneration In Process
Arguably. It just seems a little less arbitrary than using a substitute for actual goods. Also, what Iggy said.
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It's like an IOT but with more difficult rules.
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