This is why open source for communication platforms is so important.

Discord WILL disappear at some point and millions of people will lose their communities.

Online communities are far more transient and far less effective than ones rooted in geography. I'm not saying that they don't provide value or aren't worthwhile.

Online communities can rebuild quickly are more resilient in a sense e.g. Digg to Reddit migration.

Discord's just a platform. When Discord will disappear, I don't think it would happen overnight and the communities would have time to decide where to relocate, hopefully for an open-source self-hosted solutions, but more likely for the next hot thing in instant communication. And it's not as if communities don't move from platform to platform already: like wasn't there a big wave of people moving from Digg to Reddit a while back?

for discord emigres, teamspeak still exists, and for social media all you need is an old school forum that hosts videos and voila

The author of the article claims that a mere migration to a new platform does not solve the problem. It just fragments the community. I agree with that. For one or another reason not all people will migrate.

stay on discord then i suppose? if you dont like discord, staying on it is surely not an option though i assumed?

I am not on discord, so I don't have skin in the game. But it depends on the community I guess. If everyone stayed on discord then there would be no change. But any kind of change would probably have some kind of effect, even if all people migrated to a new platform.

I can try to think of a simple scenario. For whatever reason, a user may not be as active in the new platform as they were on discord. This could alter the community dynamics. On a bigger scale this could have visible effects in the actual community.

To be clear, I am not advocating in favor of staying on discord. I just find the concept of community building interesting.

> "Crystallized intelligence" and "emotional intelligence" are the consolation prizes no one really wants.

Speak for yourself. I'd happily retroactively trade a dozen IQ points back in my 20s for emotional intelligence. I'd be much happier.

All we needed to do was accept Ukraine to NATO. Or provide actual military help back in 2014.

Instead we paid more, got hundreds of thousands of people dead, undermined our security guarantees, and all because of short term idiocy/cowardice.

The only reasonable consequence is EU countries getting nukes and getting closer to China.

And we're digging our grave further by Trump undermining NATO guarantees.

They could keep a few hundred no problem.

That's what you get for abandoning Ukraine after Budapest memorandum.

They gave up their nukes to be betrayed. There will be A LOT of new countries with nukes soon because of that.

It's useful to have a word for cumulonimbus and models based on that even if you know it's just a particular configuration of the wave function.

Whether personality is entirely based on laws of physics or not - is a separate question.

Yes. That's the point? Your personality might change and you're still you.

From an evolutionary viewpoint this makes perfect sense.

You better always feel like you otherwise you may not help this non-you survive, hence the non-you's went extinct quickly.

I think of it this way:

    Person me = new Person {
      body: { ... },
      personality/soul: { ... },
      emotionalState: { ... },
      memories: { ... }
    }

The "me" is very small - it's just the structure that holds the pointers to everything else.

Replacement will be 80% worse, that's fine. As long as it's 90% cheaper.

See Duolingo :)

This is like reading somebody's linkedin vs working with them for a month.

BTW the value gained from travel is dropping with every new country. The single biggest lesson is just noticing everything you assumed is obvious and natural that is actually just accidental and specific to your country. Especially Americans would benefit from it.