Dr. Moose

If airplane wings could flap they absolutely would. Our biological equivalent is objectively better than any mechanical tech we have right now. It’s really hard to beat millions of years of evolution.

You can very easily smooth out passenger’s position same way a horse’s head feels comfortable on top of a horse.

Why not? Our legs are already better than any wheel could ever get. Why not apply this to robots given they can be good enough

No one’s claiming that. Trucks can still handle the last mile just like they do it with container ships.

Im no logistics expert byt ship -> train -> semi sounds like a great infrastructure design especially now as the container is interchangeable between all of these mediums.

Bet that semi trucks are more expensive due to road damage and congestion alone.

But american freight trains are laughably bad too

https://youtu.be/AJ2keSJzYyY

You’re not far off - it was put together by dudes who just wanted to socialize and talk philosophy and metaphysic on a porch which is called Stoa thus literally Stoics.

CBT is actually heavily inspired by Stoicism and the author openly credits Stoicism and especially Epictetus :)

You might be underselling entertainment to yourself here. Experiencing creation and your own interpretation of these creations is pretty fucking magical when you think about it.

Ive been lucky to have discovered Stoicism early in life and that what has been driving me for decades now!

To put it shortly Stoicism focuses on self growth with things like identifying natural human virtues (need for knowledge, justice, temperance, courage) and focusing life around improving those. This is expressed through a princicle called dichotomy of control which says that there are things that are out of our control like death that we shouldn’t focus on and things that are like natural virtues that are something we can do to improve upon.

It also deconstructed and included all of the cool contemporary ideas like mindfulness and being cosmopolitan two millenia ago so its a really great suite of natural philosophies that survived the test of time.

Stoicism is also low key Idealist as in your natural perception of your own virtues and state is the only real thing that matters which is what makes this ideology so much more freeing. You don’t judge yourself against some mystical ideal but to your own perception of purpose and growth.

It’s an easy, frictionless and a highly rewarding way to live :)