Unfortunately what humanity always found out is that physics always progress. That means that we are always at mercy of uknown physics laws or put it simply: Till now humanity had a lot of luck and everyone luck at some point ends.
That observation doesn't seem right. There are a lot of people in STEM. Most do not come from upper class parents. Many of the children of upper class parents go into non-STEM fields, including law. (Some go into music, which is not STEM.)
My decidedly working class parents insisted we learn to play piano. Most of my relatives had a piano in the house. I think it was a holdover of the days when home entertainment was self-made.
A friend lived in both the Los Angeles and New Orleans areas. He compared the two as: in LA, the parties of rich people have live music. In New Orleans, the parties of poor people have live music.
And Damgård, mentioned earlier, was born in 1957 Denmark, and plays Danish and Nordic folk music. Postwar Denmark was poor. Perhaps this interview (in Danish) explains why he started? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUF_EkN4Z-g
So, 1) is there a significantly high proportion of people in STEM who are into music than non-STEM? (and not simply some sort of observational bias), and 2) is the major contributing factor to the high proportion because the parents of those people were upper class? (and not some other factor like STEM fields paying enough so people have free time for hobbies.)
I would add lots of kids in lower income homes are exposed to music being played by family members, peers, school programs, or church groups (examples). It's true that these kids might not be playing Mozart but there is nothing wrong with bluegrass, gospel, or whatever, to instill a love of playing music.
Maybe listen to "Juke Box Hero" or "Coat Of Many Colors" for inspiration on how people from modest backgrounds can have the same fulfilling experiences as wealthy people. (sorry - personal soapbox)
Actually, Music is STEM, in the true and classical sense - it's only our perverted modern view that has severed music from its moorings in mathematics.
It was even part of the quadrivium of medieval education: Arithmetic, Geometry, Astronomy, and MUSIC! A classical education not only taught these subjects, but how they were all inextricably interrelated (or intertwingled, as Ted Nelson famously says...)
STEM is not a classical term. Don't go thinking that because we don't follow ancient Greek philosophy or medieval education philosophy that are somehow perverted.
FWIW, I strongly dislike "STEM" as a term because it makes no sense to me in an educational or philosophical sense. I see it more as an attempt to lower the cost of hiring engineers and scientists by increasing the supply. For example, compare the funding going into getting more programmers and EEs, vs. marine biologists and paleontologists, even though all of them are STEM.
To clarify "no sense to me", I despise Pirsig's "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" because of its insistence on a clean division between romantic and classical views. I view "STEM"'s treatment of the rest of the liberal arts as being similarly incorrect in its dichotomous classification. Eg, mathematics is important for the humanities too.
But it's clear what _def is talking about by "STEM", and there's no need to suggest we or modern culture are following along with a perversion because the conversation isn't aligned with your personal views.
They also provide an excellent break from the kind of thinking required in things like programming IME. I can be exhausted from a day of coding and happily sit down and practice with the piano in a way I couldn't with other intellectual topics like maths.
I maintain both the "I don't care about cookies" and the premium "No, thanks" extension and the filter list. All by myself, for the last 8-9 years. Please don't write stuff you didn't recheck first.
While the list is a cool addition for those who can't install the extension, it really can't do much when cookie policy needs to be accepted for the website to work properly. The extension accepts policies automatically when it's needed.
I love your extension Daniel. Installing Firefox Mobile, then this was a revelation. Unfortunately, it was killed by the Firefox update two weeks later.
It has some extra features. i don't think it is a repackage.
You can do those with uBlock Origin, but users don't want to mess with extensions and want extensions to work out of the box, so they install many extensions leading to malware and privacy issues.
Ublock is the one that was swiped from the original creator's hands under the guise of maintenance support while the original creator's time was scarce.
Ublock origin is the one to use, and is maintained by the original creator.
I'd link to sources, but it's too easy for me to cherry pick... I'd recommend looking around to see if what you find corroborates with what I've stated.
There is nothing from evolutionary point of view more important than having children. It would be highly unusual if nature didn't make that experience overall speaking as one of best things in life.
And yet, all the studies of people with children show that they make you less happy, while they are around, although more happy later in later, presumably once they have moved out. Years of relief built up I guess (just kidding, more likely the benefits of having an extended close family when you are older).
Speaking for myself, I know that I would hate to have my freedom taken away by having children. I also know that my sister, who has a four year old and a one year old, has been miserable and exhausted for much of the last four years.
I'm curious about these studies, how they measure happiness, and the possible confounding factors. I was really happy before kid (singular), and I'm still really happy. Happier, I think, then I would have been otherwise? I don't really know how to measure that.
As a not-yet-made-it startup guy it definitely feels like playing on "expert mode". But with a supportive partner and some careful life choices, it feels pretty good. It helps that my cofounder has a kid almost the same age as mine, and we've been going through this together.
Moral framings like this are pointless. That's a scenario that's never going to happen, so why worry about it? Instead, we have a real question to ask:
Which of these would you choose?
A. Have children and be less happy, more stressed, and have less money and less free time for your a ~25 year stretch somewhere between ages 20 and 60.
B. Don't have children, be less happy, poorer, much busier, and more stressed during those years, but potentially more happy in your old age.
The point is the realization that happiness is not the most essential thing in thing. My hypothetical is meant to be similar to the choice between two futures, one, where you have one more loved one and maybe less happiness, and the other where you have one fewer loved one and maybe more happiness - i.e the choice to have a child or not.
Happiness is a kind of short term thing. Life has better things to offer in my view.
Being a parent with two small kids in a foreign country and no family support (plus, you know, the usual global pandemic), it has definitely been the worse experience of my life.
My wife doesn't work, money is not a problem but the lack of sleep and freedom to do a lot of things is hard to swallow.
Nature plays a big role in it: I really felt like having kids (which surprised me) and I sure will do everything I can to protect them, but my life is a constant fight with depression.
There is probably the opposite mechanism at play: having invested years of pain in them, you value your kids the more time passes.
I'm sure things will improve once they're 4-5 and they're a bit better behaved / we can start sleeping again / we can start having some time for ourselves as well.
Yes, in Catholicism there are Jesuit spiritual exercises tailored both for priests and shorter for ordinary people, similar in orthodoxy. I think protestants lack that element and that's why meditation is so catchy in America.
Meditation is big in both Catholicism and Protestantism within the U.S. Meditation is catchy now due to some of the research behind it as well as society always looking for the next panacea.
Modern / Hindu / Buddhist meditation (or what i have read and understood) typically centers around emptying one’s self or chanting a certain phrase to reach enlightenment.
Christian meditation is about filling oneself with the Holy Spirit and denying our own selfish desires.
When God gives his law for humanity in the book of Joshua he commands the people to “meditate on it day and night” because that is the way he intends them to know Him better.
Slavery in Utah lasted 10 years and included very small number of Afroamerican and Native American people so certainly economic success of Utah is in no significant way connected to slavery.
