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The complaining comes first- the active change comes next. The second part is definitely the hardest. It's like someone who always thinks they have a ...

Bitter, one of the main reasons for this thread is to not only point to the supremacy of technology has a basis for which all society is organized, bu...

What's the deal against complaining? Complaining is a way of showing disapproval at a state of affairs as @"Baden" stated. It can be said that the US ...

Not sure what you mean. That seems like an incomplete thought.

Yes, all of it. Of course the more modern we get, the more reliant the technology is on specialized engineers and scientists. But investors, eventuall...

Interesting point. Consumers are not valuable. Only the creators of technology are. That's the thing. The investors are nothing without the science, t...

But this is why I specifically called out technology- it is not the output aspect or the economic indicator that represents output. It is the technolo...

Also, it is the burden of knowledge. The best must create. The best must have the knowledge. The best have to be specialized.

Yes I agree, but how much technology goes into all of what you described? A lot more than used to be. So tech here is meant broadly, not in the narrow...

All of this is based on the current technology which is used to make further technology. The workers and investors rely on technology. So it is still ...

You paint a very good picture of how investment, manufacturing, engineering, and invention work. However, what I mean by money doesn't do anything wit...

@"Bitter Crank" I'll put it this way. Try to make an argument against the fact that the most valuable people are the technology originators? You can b...

Very good description. Thanks for recommendations. They do fit the theme it seems. Fiction can often paint the picture, that a monograph can't quite g...

@"?????????????" Thanks for the book recommendations! I might have to add it to the reading list. As you know by now, these topics simply go back to t...

Well, let me put this in a broader context- think about the burden of technology. As you mentioned a large EMP over North America, I can hear in the b...

Well I’m connecting it with technology for a reason. There is the need for someone to master the technology and perpetuate it. Who shall it be? You do...

Well if I had the time I would try to get the exact recount of the thoughts of the person who invented the C language exactly as he invented it. Then ...

I will happily change the title if you think it appropriate. If you want to point the way to proper epoche methodology, I would be happy to see an exa...

Well started off describing the two ways of innovating tech an approach that concentrates on the study of consciousness and the objects of direct expe...

I explained it in the OP. Happiness > Community > Technology

I guess there’s no evaluative aspect to this. It is to reveal the connection of happiness to technology by necessity.

The problem is having no choice. Back to your point about the reduction..more technology producers why?

There’s no other choice..I guess you can call that inherently satisfying.

Granted, perhaps I should phrase it differently such that "The intention of happiness is only had by way of technology, and thus happiness brings with...

I am not really reducing actually. It is actually more revealing happiness= technological advancement for reasons of having children. Its more definit...

Ha, I see what you're saying, but I don't think that it is necessarily an argument against survival as the stopping point. At the level of organism, w...

Good points. See my thread here about how happiness reason is really about technology. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/3977/on-the-phenomono...

While I grant that reproduction is partly hardwired (in our case by means of pleasure-centers (i.e. orgasms in sex and oxytocin released during childb...

Because the origination of “survival” in the statistical..fit enough to not die sense, is allocated at the level of evolutionary biology, not the leve...

Good point, especially bringing up the fatalistic attitude. Self fulfilling prophesy.

Ok, I see what you mean now. I reduce only to the level of survival as that is as far as “reasons” go when related to the specific situation of the an...

I don’t see an argument. What is your main point? Happiness for the child is tied to technology and it is a subtle but logical connection.

The problem with bearing more life is the person being born is stuck with it. There is no simple off button, just the very difficult mechanism of suic...

What is the origin of the need to work? Hint: it is a very simple answer.

I just started reading this thread. Sorry for the late addition. This point to me seems to have connection to Schopenhauer’s main thesis regarding wil...

So love is easy to find, eh? News to me. All those forlorn love songs, stories and such, must have been from the "unusual" cases. Divorce rates hover ...

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I'm not saying anything particularly controversial. I'm saying that most people don't find a significant other or at least in some satisfactory manner...

You are being purposefully provocative now to the point of distorting my position. Entertainment is not used in the sense that senses need tantalizing...

Yes.. but I'll respond to more later.

You tend to personalize or psychologize the philosophy rather than view it as a subject separated from the person who holds it. I suggest fruitful dia...

False equivalency. Peoples ideal partner can vary. The point is an integral part of what most people consider a valuable good, is not achieved by most...

I find it interesting that this very big important part of the human experience is so hard for people to achieve, maintain, and access. Only some peop...

So unevenly distributed? Ah right

No, but that seems like ideas I might want to read more on. The best response is to not have another person be born to experience the broken world tha...

It is comforting to have nice stories.. I've said before, "We are manifestations of the principles of Entropy" .. Schop has said, "We are manifestatio...

That doesn't follow. I could just say death is the end of life for that individual being. That is more empirically evident than your schema. Besides d...

Why does it wait through this reincarnation process?

Fallacy of smugness.

We cannot know what that means though. Only from the third-person sense of thinking about the state of death.