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by bjshepard 11y ago
Why do you assume that individual intelligence's are necessarily short-sighted in that sense? The existence of cultures as ongoing traditions of making indicates that individual intelligences are capable of participating in long-term,
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by bjshepard 11y ago
"Free trade" is a misnomer for what is, in practice, freedom of capital to cross borders in search of lower labor. The dynamic certainly helped transform the lives of many people here in China for the better -- many people made ri
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by bjshepard 11y ago
Ok, but I don't know if anything you just said entails the claim that "Anyone who says LSD makes you smarter is stupid" -- I may be stupid, but I don't think the argument that (a) LSD offers a temporary alternate form of
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The New Alchemy [Alan Watts](psychedelic-library.org)
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by bjshepard 11y ago
To understand the experience of LSD, I recommend "The New Alchemy" by Alan Watts. http://www.psychedelic-library.org/alchemy.htm
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by bjshepard 11y ago
You might also have space colonization or a world without cars?
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by bjshepard 11y ago
Wikipedia is available in China without VPN. I just got onto it.
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by bjshepard 11y ago
When this does happen, it will decrease possibility of global conflict by some measure, because much more of humanity will be able to write and read the thoughts of the other part of humanity.
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Weibo Purchases Majority Share in Twitter and Becomes Tweibo(medium.com)
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by bjshepard 11y ago
Another relevant entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism_of_small_difference...
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by bjshepard 11y ago
If that 44 billion dollars went into lifelong subsidies for X poor humans, would that be more or less effective than the existing charitable strategy?
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How long until full robotization?
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We Don't Want Mark Zuckerberg's Charity(jacobinmag.com)
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by bjshepard 11y ago
what do you think the result of the printing press on social stratification was?
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by bjshepard 11y ago
interesting comment from Peter Richerson: It seems to me that political struggle can reduce inequality without necessarily [much] violence. Labor agitation in the US from the late 19th century through the 1950s played a large coercive role
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by bjshepard 11y ago
also connected: http://www.seattletimes.com/business/local-business/where-in...
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by bjshepard 11y ago
Legal marijuana is the fastest-growing industry in the United States, with 74 percent growth in 2014, according to a recent study by the ArcView Group, a Silicon Valley investment research firm. Last year, it generated $2.7 billion in sales
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Willie Nelson’s Crusade to Stop Big Pot(nymag.com)
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