- $5-$10 gas - oil companies are not gouging - this is not the final push to EVs - create a crisis and drive people to EVs happening later
- everything requires another level of bureaucracy
- why are we so horrible to each other online
- habitation vs new information - sarcasm is easy meanness
- reason for stubbornness - think before you say it - big-city environment vs small town
- we've lost the fear of being punched in the face
- people are purposely negative to attract attention
- they don't know how to create / authenticity doesn't exist
- radical transparency - toxicity
- attention over all: we created these monsters
- intermediated communications
- excel = no-code programming
- attention deficit - Susan Cain and dale Carnegie
- America was founded by introverts, but we are all now extroverts
- learn to boast - you need to promote yourself
- attention = success / self-improvement
- introverts must be extroverts now / meanness is contextual
- you have to believe that you can control your thoughts and emotions
- communitarian vs individualistic
- we've become a land of attention whores who build nothing - just generate more and more layers of shock
- Sistine Chapel - the gap between God and Adam
- mind to mind communications - creativity disappears with telepathy
- AI trained on human communications - a predictive model
- sentient AI - "in the beginning, there was the word"
- homo nexus vs home sapiens - youtube videos don't always start where you are at.
