Time to re-read Cory Doctorow's "Unauthorized Bread". I thought it was satire and way over the top, but reality keeps catching up.
matsdis
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As a pretty new user to PieFed (and Lemmy), I still find those combined feeds ("Communities") confusing. It helped with discovery, but feels like I have been mass-subscribed and now need to unsubscribe each community individually. (I'm sure this is not the case and I just haven't figured out how it works yet.)
In contrast, the cross-post feature (mentioned by sibling comments) was easy to understand, and looks like a great way to discover (and loosely connect) small related communities.
If you're interested in human intelligence, don't miss Joseph Henrich's book, "The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter".
It has a few fun examples where historical people follow seemingly absurd complex instructions/traditions that are actually beneficial, while nobody ever designed them or knows what they do. It puts logical thinking into perspective.
In Switzerland, 77% of the population voted against. Granted, the 1% may have influenced the voters by spending money on campaigns, or even by creating a narrative over decades. And maybe that proposal was too ambitious. But in the end, it was not just the 1% who voted against but 77%. There is still a lot of skepticism against UBI, despite all the positive evidence.
That's a good book, not terribly deep but very much fun to read. I'm sure bots thinking they are human has been done several times. First show that comes to mind is Westworld, which is kind of centered around that idea.