I mean I would venture there are more mountain cities and towns inside and alongside than there are towns and cities built on or in water.

But it's true...

That's a really silly counter argument and you clearly haven't put any thought into this. Is the sword worse than a nuke since there are hundreds of millions more examples to choose from? Come on man.

On one hand you have robots who are ultimately controlled by humans. If the robot controllers are genocidal assholes then their commands will be carried out without question.

If genocidal officers order soldiers to be genocidal a few will aim up, some will straight up refuse and someone will tell the outside world what happened out of guilt.

In every possible way the ceiling for the humanity of a robot is the same as a human... But the floor is way way lower.

You send killer bots to wipe out a village they will. No questions asked.

You send humans to wipe out a village. They may or may not but if they did more than likely someone from that team will have a guilt trip 1 year or 20 years after it happened. It will not go unanswered

Conversely who would you rather prefer to occupy your city. Human beings that can relate to you and have some capacity for empathy and can therefore curb the extremism of hateful orders. Or killer robots that follow orders unquestionably including conducting war crimes with zero hesitation or possiblity of revolt.

If you think about it the very country itself is a ibn Saud mega project. I mean the current king is only the son of the founder of Saudi Arabia. Before they discovered oil in the 1920s the country didn't have anything more sophisticated than mud huts or the occasional palace/mosque that would fit in fine in the 16th century.

To basically accomplish going from goat herders in mud huts to sky scrapes and global relevancy in a single monarstic generation would inflate the egos of any family.

I'm not saying that they will succeed, but I am saying that you didn't count all the mega projects they actually succeed in such as building multiple modern cities in the desert and they did so within a generation.

You know if any type of government in the modern era can do multigenerational missions... It's probably near absolute monarch rich in valuable resources.

Far out. I mean how do you even park your car without a dedicated parking spot? Lmao

If you can't charge from home then you will just have to charge at public chargers.

That's a technology problem. It used to take way longer to pump gas back when you literally had to pump it.

Tesla's already charge hundreds of miles in 30-45 minutes and that number is getting smaller... That means you can sit and charge for 10 min and get plenty miles for local commutes.

Because the recent anti immigration sentiment isn't new. Look at American history right up until the revolution... We've been in a perpetual pro-anti immigration battle from the start.

The country in which most people are coming from today... Their grandchildren and great grandchildren will be harping on the next wave whom ever they may be where ever they come.

Singaporeans have a really strong national identity what are you talking about. Every country should be about making money, that's how Singaporeans enjoy some of the highest standards of living on the planet.

Type in "centennials documentary" into YouTube. It's from the 90s so should be a bit older.

Idk man. His body probably has a routine.

I always think about that ancient guy from the documentary about centennials and how he ate two toasted bread with butter and two glasses of wine everyday for a decade. Went to the doctor and was told to eat healthy and died within months.

That's a tough sell when drug dealers and needles start showing up at your neighborhood sand play box and playgrounds.

Chronic homelessness really only happens to people with severe mental illness or drug addiction. If you lost your job and you now have nowhere to live you will not be homeless for long if at all.

There are just to many services and shelters to be chronically homeless without serious personal disabilities.

Slavery has been wrong off and on through out history.

It often doesn't start as explicit slavery but then after generations we rip the band-aid off and just go full slave-slave master.

Then we have a reformation movement and the whole thing starts over again.

I've been living in Seattle for years now but I still have physiological reactions when I see ICBC.

I'm a pretty conformist. But the tyranny of ICBC made me want to formant revolution.

Reminds me of the time some homeless people broke into my car and stole 3 dollars in quarters when my $500 Microsoft textbook was in open view in the back seat. You could sell one of those for basically full price on eBay or Craigslist.

We definitely do. Italy once ruled the entire Mediterranean and parts of Britain.

Back then the Celtics tribes of Britain were barely cavemen. A thousand years later and the roles have reversed.

This has basically happened to China a dozen times.

This is human nature tho. It's like saying we can create a government that rules for eternity.

Fuck population control. Instead just improve education and standards of living and human nature will handle the rest.

Because a new system is always more efficient than an upgraded system.

Going from no phones to easily accessable cell phones means no money was spent building then replacing the intermediate infrastructure.

History says no region just keeps being exploited. We go through cycles.