It's mainly about being in a social group that facilitates romantic relationships and marriage, and/or putting personal effort into dating. People with no hygiene mate a lot.
The Telegram web client uses all sorts of features and a reimplementation of React.
> The project incorporates lots of technologically advanced features, modern Web APIs and techniques: WebSockets, Web Workers and WebAssembly, multi-level caching and PWA, voice recording and media streaming, cryptography and raw binary data operations, optimistic and progressive interfaces, complicated CSS/Canvas/SVG animations, reactive data streams, and so much more.
At the same time, fine-tuning sample efficiency increases with scale, so at some point you can possibly one-shot learn state and get rid of exponential searches, solving NP-Hard problems with heuristics. Sounds like a free lunch to me. At least if you can afford a net large enough.
It's interesting how one algorithm, a 'master algorithm', can presumably subsume all the others in the book, presumably a neural/evolutionary algorithm, that can simply learn/evolve when the other algorithms are useful for decision making/maximizing reward.
If you always play with the alphas then it's no wonder you think everyone primarily cares about status. Most people primarily care about resources, the tribe and religion.
Status is not very important for humans, except for a minority of hypercompetitive individuals. Most people lack the nerves for status games. The collective, the community and belonging are more important than status. The problem is that the top of a large pool of people selects for competitiveness, so if you aim high you likely need to play their games. There is hardly a way around it except maybe luck, gambling or remote work.
Just dig a little the backgrounds of key activists, the institutions that back them or where they get to speak. These are not exactly middle, underclass or grassroots institutions, but multinational orgs, banks and media monopolies.
It's wrong but not an attack on democracy. Modern environmentalism is a big astroturfing campaign. It pretends to be a grass-roots movement with little girls at their front. In reality it is backed by billionaires who do not want their private islands to sink (metaphorically and literally).