Agreed about the future not being evenly distributed, and obviously it was an exaggeration to describe humans coding by hand as having ended in 2025 - it will continue for years I'm sure. But this will have the flavor of Wile E. Coyote having skidded off the cliff but not having looked down yet :)

Indeed - more free time (ha ha).

Sure - we should be collectively incurious about every possible scientific question until we've first solved every pragmatic problem we face. Give me a break.

Just in general in most cities and countries, or did you have a particular city or country that you wanted your readers to be thinking about in this chat that needs to happen?

What I like about this judgment shortcut is that it dispenses with the onerous step of reading what is admittedly a very long book :)

Ah, right. Sounds like a particularly stupid version of guilt by association. “Don’t judge a book by (stereotypical associations you might have about) its owners.”

But I’m a fan of DFW and IJ, so I’ve probably already disqualified myself as being that guy. :)

Bad reputation why?

What do the haters say when they talk about it?

I’ve always been a fan of RZA and GZA. SZA not so much.

Uh, isn't leftist a relative term just like centrist? Aren't you still defining yourself relative to the room you're in? Left of what?

I put the original post in the very popular posting category called Reasons Why People Who Disagree With Me Somewhat Are Not Only Incorrect But Actually Evil

Nah. It can result from assessing your own true beliefs, then looking around the room and noticing that you’re not standing at either edge of the room, then using that one word as a super-concise summary to make it easier for others to roughly locate you

Tribe Called Quest, We got it from here …

Elvis Costello, Brutal Youth

Talking Heads circa 1978

I’ll take:
But if you really want to hear our views
You haven’t done nothing

Sure. Which is why you see all these “Natural gas drives out coal!” posts with graphs that omit wind and solar … but you don’t. There’s enough real success in renewables to celebrate without this kind of misleading presentation

Why do graphs like this so often leave out natural gas?

Natural gas is more responsible for the decline of coal than wind and solar are