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last year, i started hosting a Topics of Controversy dinner series.

each dinner is anchored around a taboo topic and kicks off with a few thought-provoking questions before we dive into a respectful discussion / debate.

my biggest takeaway? 

people LOVE to learn IRL with and from each other.

we need more of this.

taking suggestions for the next discussion topic for my Topics of Controversy dinner series.

100 warps to the best answer... and potentially early access to something similar and potentially more spicy that i have in the works 👀

context here: warpcast.com/ted/0x4e8f6e55

/ted | exploring the onchain frontier | surfing @ venice, ca | eating @ gjusta / gjelina

Your question made me think a lot.

1. Longevity: Should people live longer, and how could that impact society?
2. Why are women less funded?
3. War. How to survive

Should we accept single mother households in society as normal, or should we be proactive in advocating for two parent households

There’s a smallish movement to change all household related statistics to not bias against single parent households.

Specifying single mother here because it’s the most prevalent.

Longevity & health
(Blueprint, Ozempic, etc.)

Should we be optimizing for longevity? At the expense of what?

Tucker’s controversial interview of Putin that drops today and surrounding context of legacy media, censorship, cancel culture and the US military industrial complex propaganda machine

so far:
gun control + mental health
race + crime
IQ + crime
prison industrial complex
erosion of institutions
COVID response + vaccine policies

curious what you would like to see on this list next

Did some things in Sports. Then made some Film/TV. Followed the future early to VR/AR. And now down the 🐇🕳 

Intelligence: Inherent Trait or Social Construct to Maintain Class Distinctions?
- intelligence vs hardwork
- the role of education

Birth control in all its glory. The religious aspects of it, abortion, the pill (specifically would want to dive into men having to take it), could even touch on environmental controls like how most cars don’t accommodate more than two car seats so it slows down the birth rate.

This? I’m not done but curious if this fits within your controversy.

This? I’m not done but curious if this fits within your controversy. 

https://lesgreys.montaigne.io/a-gender-biased-world

Human reproduction, particularly around the birth rate and how developed countries are below the replacement rate

- what are ways that crypto can get adoption, but cause more damage than do good?
- what is the role of humans in an AI world?

how neuralink may create a new cohort/class of humans and the impact on society. in 2050, will there be a new class of neuralinked individuals who are deemed "higher class"? will it become the new norm/requirement for xyz jobs?

You can’t scale proper customer support

Few ideas:
-space colonization
-the fall in credibility in what used to be the reputable scientific journals (and higher ed in general, from culture to usefulness to research)
-religion

A fun one:
-dogs vs cats (or other pets)

where

Culture vs Race
Specifically religion /where does it fall..

The idea that Fentanyl was created in Chinese labs and imported by Mexico to harm the USA, it's just psyops.