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If you were born in an agricultural settlement, that was probably the only lifestyle you knew
All of these societies would have had headers and hunting/foraging people on their periphery who they traded with. People regularly fucked off to go join those groups. This is well attested to in written records.
Well your alleged correlation doesn’t support that claim, and I showed a number of counter examples.
I don’t think there’s a good basis for your claim. The earliest agricultural cultures all practiced flood retreat agriculture in alluvial plains.
If you look at the Americas you also only see intensive agriculture in coercive top down city states or small empires. Outside of that you see opportunistic plantings and forest agronomy mixed with foraging and hunting. Or in coastal regions you see marginal planting supplementing diets focused on fishing.
Settled agriculture was not spreading very frequently by choice. Why would anyone choose subsistence grain agriculture when literally anything else was available. On an individual level it’s strictly worse than foraging and hunting across almost all measures you’d care about.
The people farming didn't really own the land, in many cases they were captured or corralled in place and forced to farm. The were also forced to dig canals and occasionally do the soldiering. All of the early Mesopotamian city states use corvée labor. Being an early farmer was super shitty, and no one did it by choice.
Right, my point is that you can't boil happiness down to a single causal factor and if you could the evidence doesn't support home ownership being that factor.
His book, and Graeber and Wengrow's The Dawn of Everything as well as some miscellaneous books on Mesopotamia. The Dawn of Everything does a great job challenging some popular ideas around state formation as well.
Again, you don't see a major decline in population in many cases based on the archeology. Insofar as we can tell people would spread out a bit away from the cities. In the fertile crescent early city states attempted to corral people in to controlled zones of production. Absent coercion, people didn't die they just moved.
I'm sharing Gallop survey data about happiness, it's the "happiness" data everyone uses, and what OP was referring to as well. I'd challenge the idea that GDP per capita correlates to happiness. Mississippi has a higher GDP per capita than France and I'm not sure that tells us anything about who is happier.
probably wrong on all points here by your own data
again, it's not my data its the data OP referenced initially, I just linked to it.
When archaeological evidence shows that people largely stopped farming, it usually means that those people largely stopped existing
No, there are signs of habitation. If you look at the evidence from the alluvial plain around ancient Babylon and similar cities from the early history of cities in the region you see people returning to fishing, hunting, and sort of opportunistic planting on river banks. These cities had a tenuous grasp, and people would often just leave, or the city would collapse and people would stop doing intensive agriculture. People would abandon irrigation channels which they had been forced to dig and simply just go fishing. James C. Scott's Against the Grain covers the archeology nicely.
Finland is consistently ranked as the happiest country in the world and has a home ownership rate comparable to the US. Denmark ranks 3rd and has a slightly lower home ownership rate than the US. Oh, and Singapore ranks 36th[1], while the US is 23rd[2].
So you're probably wrong on all points here.
[1] https://data.worldhappiness.report/country/SGP
[2] https://data.worldhappiness.report/country/USA
I'm curious what people are quibbling with here? Romania has the world's highest rate of home ownership at 96% and only ranks as 34th in happiness. Or maybe Kazakhstan but I can't verify the data on that, and it's right beside Romania in happiness. Switzerland has the world's 4th lowest rate of home ownership and ranks 10th happiest. It seems like from a data perspective there is no empirical support for the idea that home ownership directly correlates to societal happiness.
10,000 years old, since agriculture made migratory hunter-gatherer societies obsolete.
This isn't really how the transition to agriculture worked. Historically agricultural elites captured lands with conscripted armies and forced people to farm. There are plenty of examples where central authority collapsed and the archeological evidence shows us that people largely stopped farming.
I’ll have to come up for the NYC meetup.
My team redid a bunch of our ETL. I personally built a programming language that you can download and use, and I’m about to release an iOS app(in a few weeks).
oh, I didn't recognize your username here! It's been ages since I've seen you. Hope you'll be in Chicago in September.
Is that translates to real workloads you should open a pr.
Ignore the haters, it looks very good.
Have you tried it since the new type system rolled out?
It’s pretty hard to make things like math faster for real world use cases in a bytecode interpreter.
Certainly. This feels similar, to me, to how building complex software with LLMs works today in practice. You need to know a lot to set up goals and guardrails and verify outputs. For me, making the bits change was always the fun part, not tangling with text in my editor, though that had its moments.
It’s machine learning, which people routinely called AI not so long ago.
No kidding. This[1] took nearly 5 months and I’m still working on it.
I built a language this way using AI but with a strong technical POV, and I’ve been working on it for more than 4 months. It’s been a lot of work reading papers, testing ideas, and fitting it all together. Fortunately clause saves me from having to learn C well.
Building a package manager has been a lot more difficult than I had expected.
It's ready for law school!
very little documentation available to find on its own
Building something like haskel's hoogle seems like a smart approach to this problem.
Multi-shot effects are neat and powerful but are incredibly difficult to reason about for humans
I had a very similar thought and ended up building a capability system[1] in my language to capture side effects.
[1] https://march-lang.org/docs/cookbook/capabilities/ * docs are a work in progress
It seems like a tool built for this bigger project[1] which actually looks kind of creative and cool.
[1] https://yeet.cx/
In YOUR state. This is because projects are hopping around and looking for short lines with other considerations. However that doesn't change the fact that its too hard to bring generation onto the grind in the US.
There's a years long queue for every US grid.
I imagine it'd be a lot easier to get a giant datacenter through the queue and connected if said datacenter also generated more than it's own needs
You'd be wrong. Projects get evaluated FIFO, and each has to do a grid impact study. Data centers are buying other generation projects to get a better position in line. This is all the result of bad regulation.
I kind of hear you, but things just change. People who run projects get interested in new things.