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  • Secondly why should a more technological advanced setting be unrecognizable to the viewer

    An Ironman cartoon addressed it a little by having Stark install his reactors everywhere for free clean energy.

    But really it’s because people go to a Marvel movie to see their comic books as live action, not watch another Star Trek movie.

    Because that’s the result of actual God level superhero intervention. Full Luxury Gay Space Communism. There’s nothing for a friendly neighborhood Spiderman to do. *


  • The hypothesis falls apart when the author ties the real world problems of poverty, injustice and ecological disasters to the superheroes negligence.

    1. The premises of the movies are that they are grounded in the real world. As such if superheroes transformed the world it would no longer be a recognizable setting for movie audiences.

    2. 2 hours of showing Iron Man digging wells in Africa isn’t entertaining.

    3. The ability of an individual, even if superpowered, to change society is extremely limited. We have the example of Bill Gates having spent decades and tens of billions just to irradicate a single disease. What is Captain America going to do to control health care costs? Beat cancer cells in a petri dish?










  • Ignoring AI as he is like ignoring Spreadsheets as hype. “I can do everything with a pocket calculator! I don’t need stupid auto fill!”

    AI doesn’t replace people. It can automate and reduce your workload leaving you more time to solve problems.

    I’ve used it for one off scripts. I have friends who have done the same and another friend who used it to create the boilerplate for a government contact bid that he won (millions in revenue for his company of which he got tens of thousands in bonus as engineering sales support).


  • Microtubules have been pushed for decades without any proof. The latest paper wasn’t evidence but unsupported speculation.

    But more importantly the physics of computation that creates intelligence has absolutely nothing to do with understanding intelligence. Even if quantum effects are relevant ( which is extremely unlikely given the warm and moving environment inside the brain), it doesn’t answer anything about how humans are intelligent.

    Penrose used Quantum Mechanics as a “God in the Gaps” explanation. That worked 40 years ago but today we have working quantum computers but no human intelligence.