Yes, just watch out for the snakes and spiders. Luckily the saltwater crocs are only in northern Australia!

I didn’t say anything about low intelligence. That’s your uncharitable reading of my claim.

The Dunning-Kruger effect. CEOs (especially ones who joined the company long after it was successful) really don’t know how to do the job of most of their employees. Their lack of knowledge of those jobs leads them to vastly underestimate how complex they are.

At the same time, CEOs (hopefully) know how to do their own jobs which leads them to a more accurate assessment of AI’s ability to do the job: a total farce.

In truth, AIs aren’t likely to replace most jobs in any case because it’s all a house of cards.

Hmmm? You put the life saver over your head and around your torso and then the people on the boat pull you out of the water. It’s pretty much his only chance: get out of the water before a shark attacks.

Gradually. But he can’t sell until he has possession of the shares, so that was the first step.

He controls the company. This is him “rewarding” himself. He’s desperately trying to cash out before the stock price tumbles because he knows their valuation is way out of hand.

High density isn’t the only alternative to suburbia. Walkable villages — the way people lived pretty much everywhere in Europe outside of Paris, London, Berlin etc. — are not suburbs but they’re also not high density apartment blocks.

The difference between a village and suburbia is specialization. Suburbia is specialized to housing only whereas a village is a self-contained community with both housing, small businesses, an industry or two, and surrounding wilderness as well as agricultural land.

Villages are not sprawling, they’re fairly small, and they’re connected into a network of other villages as well as larger towns and cities. In the past, this connection was via a road network (usually unpaved dirt roads for walking or horses, but some cobblestone roads too). Today this connection could be via train and even high speed train.

The real problem though is that we can’t just start over. We’re stuck with the infrastructure and planning choices we already made.

The US of the 1930s is just as foreign of a country as China or Japan today, if not more so. You overestimate the ability of car manufacturers to generate political will. This is a societal-level breakdown in trust in political institutions that goes way beyond transit issues. There are millions of Americans who want nothing more than to burn their government to the ground and rebuild it in their own image. Watch some YouTube videos of city council meetings over almost any issue and you’ll see people who look like they need to be restrained before they pull each other’s hair out.

Opposition in those countries is a tiny fraction of what you see in the US, where half the population of the country fiercely opposes anything and everything the other half tries to do.

China forcibly relocated millions of people to build the Three Gorges Dam. I doubt you’d ever see that in the US today.

Friends help friends by putting them into the recovery position.

Would be even more badass if that leather jacket were made from his uncle’s skin!

I heard about one in Japan that had only one person riding it each day. They cancelled it after she graduated high school.

Japan is just about the most different society from the US you could have picked though. Japan is a very high trust society whereas the U.S. is in the process of transition to a low trust society. Many (even very mundane) government actions that people readily accept in Japan would be met with fierce opposition in the US.

While we’re at it, we might as well outfit everyone’s quarters with a replicator and install transporters in the buildings so we don’t need to bother with food prep or vehicles at all!

Tracks are cool but kinda difficult to cover the suburbs with them!

Yes! The hard part is staying on earth!

A see a few people here saying “they” when we should be using “we.” Just by using “they” you’re exhibiting the mindset of “they, not me” and “us vs them.” Racism is just one facet of it.

Not mentioned in the summary is joint issues. Relaxin is a hormone produced by the corpus luteum within 2 weeks of ovulation (rising even further during pregnancy). This hormone softens joints, increasing flexibility and helping to prepare for giving birth. Unfortunately it also increases the risks of joint injuries, especially for knees and ankles.