HaveCourage

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by HaveCourage 10y ago
I mailed you
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by HaveCourage 10y ago
I think seasteading is stupid, however it shows a desire to experiment with governance itself. Percentage wise how many bastards are crushed out of selflessness compared to vendetta? I think you'll find that the extra satisfaction of
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by HaveCourage 10y ago
I'm a camera/cinematography person as well, so we could always chat about that :)
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by HaveCourage 10y ago
I'm happy to talk about substantive issues. We can chat, discord, livestream, move over to reddit, I love speaking about cool ideas.
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by HaveCourage 10y ago
Peter Thiel finds its easier to be a contrarian because the masses are so wildly wrong about so many things. Like the value of a college education: His scholarship fund accelerates kids lives into what they're passionate about instead
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by HaveCourage 10y ago
Peter Thiel is a visionary. His scholarship fund accelerates kids lives into what they're passionate about instead of seeing them waste years in college. He funds longevity, seasteading, and promotes people being definitive in their g
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by HaveCourage 10y ago
If only the greatest of us didn't rot away and die. I think Feynman would be great to still have around.
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by HaveCourage 10y ago
Wrongful convictions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecutor's_fallacy Don't understand what your STD test really means: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_positive_paradox Correlatio
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by HaveCourage 10y ago
If this list was "Young founders" or "xyz state founders" no one would bat an eye. Please let men and women be differently abled. Equality is the opposite of specialization. Specialization is power in a complex world.
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by HaveCourage 10y ago
It's better to make new productive areas than to fight diminishing returns and force there to be fewer productive areas. The founding of California and the USA are the result of such thinking. The powerful, propertied generation dying
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by HaveCourage 10y ago
Unfortunately, you are correct in that brain deterioration progresses faster than other forms of deterioration, which is why it's smart to focus on it over some other age dependent diseases. Your brain is a part of your body like your
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by HaveCourage 10y ago
It's a common misunderstanding that curing aging can be a pill. Aging is a quite loaded word. It means at least, curing cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer's, cell loss, hardening, muscle loss, vision loss... So what an aging cure
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by HaveCourage 10y ago
Fresh perspectives generate fresh perspectives. Birth doesn't as well, because schools tend to standardize viewpoints as do religions. If birth was a good cure, you wouldn't get regression. Like the dark ages, or what's go
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by HaveCourage 10y ago
Would you rather have the problem of paying for your loved ones to still be around and healthy, or the problem of them being dead right now? Seems like a good problem to have. Imagine if their brains and bodies were still equivalent to 50
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by HaveCourage 10y ago
Historically, as Lifespan increases war and poverty decrease. Its very easy to imagine the parade of imaginary horribles. Those horribles look out of place on a graph of global human fulfillment over time. It's so easy to dream how
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by HaveCourage 10y ago
Grouping effectively is a competition. Dogs have tails they wag, humans have eye whites and emotional attachment to eye movements, even language. Competition requires 3 things. 1. A win condition 2. A contest 3. Participants. Pretending
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by HaveCourage 10y ago
Kids aren't too productive till they age. Perhaps we discover that 40 is the new 18. Or maybe there's more value to life than productivity. There must be polarity for movement. Some must have more than others. Excellence come
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by HaveCourage 10y ago
50% of your lifetime medical cost occur in your last year of life. Old people aren't expensive, unhealthy and nearer death people are expensive. Delaying that last year of life by remaining robust is very profitable.
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by HaveCourage 10y ago
A straw man would be more something like "since no one has ever seen how badly immortal societies have gone, no one can say they're bad."
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by HaveCourage 10y ago
You never step in the same river twice. If life gets too boring for you, remember the saying, cut down the tracks, not across the street. Might it be easier to cure boredom than decay? You need only become forgetful right? You wouldn&#x
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by HaveCourage 10y ago
Summary of pro death arguments re: longevity progress Fairness Only rich people will get it. (no tech has ever done this.) Better to give money to the poor than science. (family,city,state,nation, has proven local investment bea