Comment by dmitrygr
2 days ago
Which of the two give us progress? Are you sure you wanna give up all progress for the sake of stability?
2 days ago
Which of the two give us progress? Are you sure you wanna give up all progress for the sake of stability?
This is a false dichotomy though, as I linked previously in this thread, adult Sweeds are above Koreans, and only slightly below Japanese in both literacy, numeracy, and problem solving.
Personally I think it's easy to overestimate how important it is to be good at something at 16 for the skill at 25. Good university is infinitely more important than 'super elite' high school.
I'd rather live in a stable society than some tech utopia.
So, here's a time machine. You can go back to a time and place of lasting, enduring stability. There have been been numerous such periods in recorded history that have lasted for more than a human lifetime, and likely even more prior to that. (Admittedly a bit of a tautology, given that most 'recorded history' is a record of things happening rather than things staying the same.)
It will be a one-way trip, of course. What year do you set the dial to?
Ok, please surrender your cellphones, internet, steam, tools, writing, etc... all those were given to you by the best of the crop and not the median slop.
Go gather tubers in a forest
the worst part about the average person is that 49% are worse than average
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I guess we should tell that guy from Tula who makes watches to go mushroom picking too