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Right now, Facebook does very little to identify content, only provide it.

They certainly do identify content, and indeed alter the way that certain messages are promoted.

Example.

They faced criticism for allowing fake news to spread on the site

Who decides what is and is not fake news?

I am unconvinced that this fact tells us much about what our future either will or should be like.

My digression above could have caused a misunderstanding of my point. I do not mean to say that we are/should return to violence in the Western world, but rather that the desire is still present within us and large-scale violence happens much more often than in our semi-homogeneous middle class bubbles.

I don't imagine the conversation is headed to any conclusion/meeting point, but I wanted to clarify what I was saying to highlight the misunderstanding.

Thanks for the information! May I get a link to that research paper? My google-fu is apparently weak.

But I, for one, have never crushed anyone's skull for power and wealth (mine or anyone else's), and I'm not sure I know anyone who has, and the net quantity of skullcrushing per person seems to be decreasing over time despite the extremely nasty skullcrushing bonanzas of the early-to-mid 20th century.

I'm not sure if the user you are replying to meant it like this, but it would make sense that your ancestors did plenty of the "skull-crushing" for you (in a sense), and that is why you are here today. The colonialism and use of violence in the past is why you enjoy the life you do today.

Agreed. Absolutely partisan and largely unrelated to the point of this board.

Speaking of immigration, immigration is not absolutely productive. There are a myriad of factors at play here. If one wishes to inject a population with a group in order to increase the population's overall productivity, they must ensure that the injected group is as-productive or more productive than the original population.

I would wager that the majority of gender inequalities in the Western world are reinforced by biology.

I concur. The Olympians have been cheating since the inception of the modern Olympics, and will continue to do so. There is little doubt in my mind that nearly every successful Olympic Athlete has used these drugs (a kind of race to the bottom is at work here). Hell, the Olympics could be regarded as a contest on secretive steroid use... A Drug-Olympics could be a showcase of the newest biotechnological advancements. The data gained from the plethora of individuals experimenting with these substances would be great; the physiological effects of these 'drugs' could be examined with regard to the nationalities and genetic make-up of these individuals. It could lead to some very interesting results/advancements.

Very good point. On a similar note: we often don't consider whether we have empirically tested what we, ourselves, believe to be true. Most often, we have not. I'd wager that we are all 'useful idiots' of a sort.