Today is August 15th, 2022.
Let’s check the previous post:
3. Why were you allowed to go out to the store without a mask yesterday while the lock down in Shanghai was indefinitely extended just a few days ago? Must be communism, right? Wastewater levels of COVID are at all-time highs in many regions and yet we have given up almost all of our restrictions…
Daily cases are still higher than we were seeing prior to 2022 but with death rates being as low as they are, the world is ready to move on again.
4. Money is in a bad place. I don’t even know where to start with this one but the signs are converging to the same ending: debt economy doesn’t work when debt is never allowed to resolve…
And the definition of a “recession” has changed a few times as of today…
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2. You’re going to start feeling the effects of climate change stronger. Papers from as recently as last year (2021) will show the same steadily growing trends that we were all scared of before… but they won’t account for this year. Last year you may have caught a glimpse of hope, seeing the Arctic ice rebound strongly from 2020, but wait until this September when the ice reaches its lowest volume ever (you still won’t hear alarms).
-Credit: National Snow and Ice Data Center, July | 2022 | Arctic Sea Ice News and Analysis (nsidc.org)
Still above our all-time lows for now… give it another two months for the September reports to be published. Have noticed the other signs yet?
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1. I am now almost certain: truly transformative AI will be here this decade.
We’re going to come back to this one in another post entirely. I still think I was right about this one and I still hope I’m not.
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5. If you can’t stay in the black: You will be fine… but if you don’t start having children in the next 10 years, you might not get the chance. Soon, it’ll be frowned upon, unaffordable, plainly illegal, or men will hit zero sperm per mL.
Think of the children!