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A couple things to remember related to this: 1. How many of these people actually understand farms are where food comes from, and know where they are? 2. How many of these people have the initiative and determination to go to such places if they know about them/ 3. How many of them are actually...

This is the crux of it, really. Technological advancement will continue to make labor more and more efficient, until something stops technological advancement. Particularly large jumps can be rough for people, the iconic luddites did what they did because their particular skill set had...

That's exactly what they are.

And 2-4 seems to be the norm for Evangelical Christians, with more than 4 more likely than less than 2. I didn't get married until I was 36, so I'll be unlikely to be able to match that, but me and the wife are trying.

'Children of Men' wasn't 'declining birthrates,' it was 'no more babies are being born at all.' Even nations that are experiencing catastrophically collapsing birth rates, there will come a turning point. In the uglier scenario, that turning point is because they import a replacement...

50 Billion plus before we're even approaching unsustainable population. Start building vertical farms en masse, and there's little stopping Earth from becoming a Hive World.

Not even remotely proven. Yes, brain damage can cause a change in personality. So can losing an arm, or a leg, or being raped, or having your parents divorce when you're a child (or even an adult). Heck, seeing something profoundly disturbing that has no direct connection to you or any of your...

No, it isn't an argument purely from dogma. It's just Christians have the advantage of being able to sum it up in a very short sentence. Logic is literally an outflowing of Philosophy. Yes, there's a bunch of people out there who abuse philosophy to spew BS, but that does not change the fact...

Short form? Made in the image of God. Long form, or form for people who refuse to believe in that, is the grounds for a doctoral dissertation in Philosophy and/or Theology.

You realize you're asking one of the most profound philosophical questions ever, that has been pondered and argued over for thousands of years, right?

I refer you to my prior statement: From what I recall, some animals are capable of recognizing themselves in mirrors, but this is not the same thing as sapience, which is usually more or less what people mean when they refer to 'self-aware' in the case of humans.

AI is not capable of gaining self-awareness as the term is understood when applying to humans. Code, no matter how sophisticated, can never emulate having a soul.

It also ignores the fact that the economy exists to provide for human needs and desires. Robots do not have desires, and the only reason their needs are provided for, is so that they can continue to act as the sophisticated tools that they are, enabling more efficient fulfillment of human needs...

In a thousand years? Maybe the technical capacity will exist. In fifty or a hundred? We aren't even close to being close. I don't think you understand just how difficult 'digital mind uploads' are. There's basically two theoretical models for how this could be done. One of them is 'transfer...

Well, if they want to kill themselves in a doomed science experiment, that's their prerogative. It isn't going to work, not any time in the next few decades or centuries for technical reasons, nor likely ever for metaphysical reasons.

About half of this is analysis is so flawed as to be completely the wrong way around. Metaverse is almost certainly never going to become a dominant thing like The Oasis in Ready Player One. Nor will the combination of various different VR worlds. Why? Because VR equipment, and quality you...

I dunno about you, but I'm quite a bit bigger and beefier than my dad. He'd wreck me on cardio, but I'm within an inch of my grandfathers and have equal or greater muscle mass. Of course, I'm a middle-of-the-pack millennial. I wouldn't necessarily expect the same from late millennials or zoomers.

In this post, you start by asserting the WEF has no power... ...And then go on to explain how they have power. What?

As a sci-fi writer who actually does his research, this line of reasoning gets so old. Cybernetics do not work like that. Implanting something in somebody's body without doing serious harm is difficult and expensive. Designing something that can stay in there for any duration is expensive...

What they keep finding, is 'the brain is actually way more complicated than we thought, and it's even harder to understand it than we thought.' The rate of change in the field of 'mind machine interface' has gone from 'no change at all, because we can't do it at all,' to 'we have prosthetics...