Why can't cities/countries be run more like exceptional companies? Efficient, innovative, etc.
How far away are we from people like Elon Musk being able to buy some land and build a new city with groundbreaking quality of life?
Would that even ever happen, and why yes or why not?
Locally maybe there is no purpose. But maybe it's necessary for life to emerge elsewhere, so it could have a larger purpose.
If you isolate a napkin, it has no purpose but as soon as you need to wipe you mouth it acquires one. So maybe purpose is relative.
But yeah, looking at my original post, I'm trying to compare the purpose of the universe with the purpose of humans, which doesn't necessarily overlap
I think it might also depend on your goals. Like how fast you want to learn something. If you have less than ideal time, then maybe more structured learning is necessary. If you have more time then periods of structureless/passive learning could be beneficial.
Is the purpose of the universe evolution?
I often think about why we're here -and of course the roman empire. And while it might be tempting to think that the purpose of life is to be happy or content, I think the over arching theme of the world is evolution. Repeating cycles of creation and destruction: biological life, planets, solar systems, black holes, etc.
It's almost a little grim. That maybe, the reason we're here is for the end product. Just like a farmer plants a tree for the fruit. But I guess the in-between steps are no less beautiful than then finished result. Same as the journey being as meaningful as the destination.
Wouldn't you agree though, that one should probably not always do the number1effective thing? Can we even really say confidently which thing is most effective?
How does the brain data not get corrupt when waking up randomly at night? I'm assuming during sleep the brain is changing and reorganising data.
I think we might be valuing the importance of each step based on personal experience. But maybe they're both equally important. ex. What's more important for a cake, buying the ingredients or cooking it?
How can one improve the "mating dance" ?
What is your point?
Of course you will have to go through the rest of process, but you just solved the most critical step.
I believe, the fact that they might not want to know the outcomes, due to potentially complex legal procedures the effort they would have to exert to protect users better doesn't make it hard, it makes the companies selfish.
Looking the other way and claiming ignorance because you don't want to deal with the legal implications of your product potentially causing harm is really horrible.
EDIT: Happy to hear the disagreements here.
Imagine a dynamic user interface generated in real-time by AI. Isn’t that the future of UI?
Imagine WhatsApp being different for everyone. Or Facebook being different for everyone. Apps themselves would kinda lose their meaning and maybe just the backend would remain.
This would probably unify apps into one single UI where a message is a message, no matter where it’s coming from.
What do you think?
What would it take to bring Apple down?
Not in a malicious way. Just like empires fall, or businesses fail. What would it take, or what would need to happen? Apple seems to be growing, and doing many things right.
So here's what I'm thinking.
I would argue that main bottleneck for people having an abundance of good potential partners is usually not their character or personality. Which sure can be improved, but it's not the main obstacle.
I believe the main issue is the bad matchmaking process. Meeting through friends, or chatting someone at the bar/club/restaurant, or at ones hobbies is just inefficient. How many new potential partners is the average person gonna meet in a month? 10? 50? 100? And most people are even too afraid to even start a conversation with a stranger.
We live in cities of millions... how many opportunities are being missed for amazing relationships?
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What is the (counterfactual) impact of a celebrity? Like, how much good does it bring to the world when someone becomes a star singer, actor, athlete?
Sure they can entertain, they can inspire, they can donate money, they can raise awareness for different issues.
But there can also be a lot of narcissism and selfishness and entitlement.
I'm trying to imagine someone dedicating their life to acting, singing or sports... and it just feels like such a waste of time, when there's so many problems in the world that need solving. How does one make that choice? Is there a logical argument for it?
In a future where we have conscious control over our dopamine system, why would we do anything?
Even caring for others taps into our pleasure center and is something that makes us feel good. But without the pleasure bias, why would we do anything?
What would be the goal and why?
Literally everything is colored by our emotions. So without them, what decides our actions? I guess logic would be the logical answer, but logic is just a tool emotions are the driving force.
Maybe survival could be one high-level goal, and also evolution. Both are not necessarily dependent on emotions.
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