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For all my lifetime, futurists have had a dream, of humanity coming together to consciously decide its fate.
The point I make in this post is quite unlikely to be original.
As polls and asking LLMs didn’t give me much insight into which status markers are more adaptive, let me try to think the issue through myself.
In an attempt to learn more about status, I asked some polls comparing status markers.
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For all my lifetime, futurists have had a dream, of humanity coming together to consciously decide its fate.
“The cream and hot butter mingled and overflowed separating each glucose bead of caviar from its fellows, capping it in white and gold.” — Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited In 1960, American photographer Carl Mydans (May 20, 1907 – August 16, 2004) journeyed behind the Iron Curtain to show the West how the Soviets … Continue reading "Soviet Caviar Harvest by Carl Mydans, Astrakhan 1960" The post Soviet Caviar Harvest by Carl Mydans, Astrakhan 1960 appeared first on Flashbak.
Miles Davis didn’t put out any studio albums from 1973 until the middle of 1981. In explaining the reasons for this lacuna in his recording career, Milesologists can point to a variety of factors in the man’s professional and personal life. But one in particular looms large: the failure of his 1972 album On the […]
