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by briga 9y ago
Considering how long it will take to get a proper bioshpere on Mars, which will only work IF we can teraform Mars properly, I dont think we'll be able to abandon Earth any time soon. I think the Mars colony will be something more like
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by briga 9y ago
The great writers like Shakespeare and Proust probably deserve a spot on this list. Also I'm not sure what Said is doing on that list with all those geniuses. Not saying he isn't great, but why him?
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by briga 9y ago
I have stopped using most forms of social media (except this one, obviously), but I don't think the buck stops there. Deleting your profile isn't much of a vote when they don't stop tracking you after your profile has been de
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by briga 9y ago
Social media platforms like Facebook have more political power in the US than the president, and should be just as accountable for their actions as any political organization must be. I don't think the full extent of how much control s
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by briga 9y ago
I wonder if it's a good thing that the new norm is for entire AI research labs to be gobbled up by giant tech companies.
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by briga 9y ago
In his book What Technology Wants, Kevin Kelly makes a pretty convincing case that evolution, and by extension technology, is convergent upon certain forms. The eye evolved independently several times in natural history not by coincidence,
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by briga 9y ago
I'm no mycologist, but for an accurate identification of mushrooms often spore prints are needed. Also the color and shape can vary wildly over a few days, which makes this more tricky than a typical visual classification problem.
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by briga 9y ago
I don't think it's just the Yellowstone area. In Jasper I've seen bears doing the same sort of the rock-flipping scavenging. The sheer number of moths they eat is pretty surprising though, I never would have suspected bugs to
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by briga 9y ago
Crazy to think that something that was considered "virtually impossible" (image recognition) a few years ago is relatively easy today.
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Computation in Nature(jjanes.ca)
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by briga 9y ago
In Search of Lost Time. It's definitely famous and well-known, but I think it's far more talked about than actually read. Proust is a philosopher and psychologist more than a novelist, and large chunks of the book are basically ju
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by briga 9y ago
I felt like Homo Deus was largely a retread of Sapiens. Some of his speculations about the various forms of humanism that have arisen in the 20th century were interesting, but for most of the book it felt like he was treading very familiar
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by briga 9y ago
Granted, but Edmonton is also much smaller than Montreal and Toronto. I think Edmonton would compare favorably to similar-sized North American cities in terms of cultural events.
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by briga 9y ago
>Not to mention the lack of access to events This is simply not true. There's some festival or other happening every weekend all summer long in Edmonton.
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by briga 9y ago
While my city has destroyed the environment of the majority of animals, there are some notable exceptions. Crows, ravens, pigeons, rabbits, squirrels--all of these animals seem to flourish in a city environment. They live in a much higher c
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by briga 9y ago
In other news, the sky is blue.
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by briga 9y ago
I would suggest giving it another go. There are few authors who have given this issue as much thought as Bostrom, and if the conclusions he draws are false at the very least that opens up the door for further conversation about the subject.
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by briga 9y ago
Apps these days are purposefully design to be as addictive as possible. I wouldn't give my kid unlimited access to screens for the same reason I wouldn't give my kid unlimited access to candy or coffee or cocaine. Should we really
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by briga 9y ago
What does Trump care about the environment? He'll be dead long before this decision has any actual consequences on the environment. Meanwhile there's a ton of money to be made in the short term. This is probably the most depressin
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by briga 9y ago
I wonder how the critical reception to The Pale King will evolve over time. In my opinion it's been a bit over-esteemed by fans of DFWs work. It really does feel incomplete, and not just in a Brothers Karamazov sort of way. It lacks a
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by briga 9y ago
All I mean is that these predictions have to be taken with a grain of salt. I feel like there's an inherent assumption here that the scientific and political landscape will remain unchanged and progress will continue at or exceed it&#x
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by briga 9y ago
These studies are always interesting, but I don't think they have much more scientific validity than, say, asking a bunch of religious fundamentalist preachers when the second coming of Jesus is going to be. No one knows how difficult
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by briga 9y ago
There are fish in the deep ocean that produce light as a lure for prey. I don't see why this couldn't be the case with extra-terrestrial life. Whether or not the cause of this dimming is biological or not, I don't think this
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by briga 9y ago
I'm not an astronomer, so could someone explain why everyone's assuming this is an 'alien megastructure', rather than, say, a regular planet?
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by briga 9y ago
With all the criticism of higher education not being diverse enough, why wouldn't they discriminate based on race? You can have a complete meritocracy where only the best students get in, or you can have an inclusive environment where
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by briga 9y ago
Imagine if you went back 50 years and told Terry Winograd or Marvin Minsky that in 50 years we'd still be trying to figure out how to get robots to stack blocks on top of each other. They'd think you were nuts.
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by briga 9y ago
'Unlike any other' might be a stretch. Writers have been playing these sorts of meta-narrative games for decades now. Nabokov's Pale Fire comes to mind. House of Leaves is another example.
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by briga 9y ago
He may have been ousted from PayPal, but that didn't change the fact that he was a primary share-holder and made hundreds of millions of dollars when it was sold out. Besides the money it also opened up the door for him to move on to b
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by briga 9y ago
I think the 'sane' reason here is that seeing these numbers encourages users to use the website more. In a world were more time-on-site is correlated with increased advertising revenue I don't think these numbers are going to
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by briga 9y ago
It's been suggested that humans have an innate biological desire to believe in religion. I think from an evolutionary perspective this hypothesis makes sense. Groups of humans inclined to believe in religions must have been selected fo

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