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by chr1 7y ago
It's not the same, writing style matters in getting your message to the reader, the style of your comment looked hostile, and not motivation nor the logic of your argument were discernible from it.
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by chr1 7y ago
Immortality + no other technology improvement is not a realistic assumption, that's why you get to a non-realistic result of "people have to die eventually" from it. The immortality is not a thing you take and then have to ki
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by chr1 7y ago
First of all "kills us all" is highly exaggerated and what happens largely depends on what we do in this years. But even assuming the kills us all part is correct, dying now is worse prospect than dying in 30 years so i don't
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by chr1 7y ago
Could you please elaborate why do you consider us psychologically unsound. Have you watched any talks by Aubrey de Grey?
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by chr1 7y ago
Do you think the same way about suicide hotlines? Of course choosing to die is anyone's right and it is bad that most countries still ban euthanasia, but often people want to die not by choice but because of illness or some kind of mis
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by chr1 7y ago
Lee Smolins book "einstein's unfinished revolution" is a fairly accessible, and all of his papers are on arxiv, e.g. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.05108.pdf Stephen Wolfram has an interesting blog post whic
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by chr1 7y ago
It would be even more exciting if the device doesn't work for large number of qubits. Several theories (e.g. by 't Hoft, by Smolin) predict that quantum computers should not work when amplitudes become small enough.
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Google's Quantum Processor May Achieve Quantum Supremacy in Months(interestingengineering.com)
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by chr1 7y ago
After removing the water and using it, the water will come back into ocean so sinking (or subsiding:) of the sediment layer won't change the water level. The same water that was under the sediment layer will simply move above it. So th
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by chr1 7y ago
Unfortunately this particular method of creating seafloor subsidence won't help because we'll be moving water from under the sediment layer over it, so the sea level should stay the same. I wonder however if moving water into aqui
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by chr1 7y ago
1) If the population stays at ~7 billion ticket price will stay very expensive, but if there are several hundred billions, we'll build a launch system like "space fountain" or one of other proposed designs that are not econom
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by chr1 7y ago
We are not reproducing nearly enough, our problem is aging and declining population, not overpopulation. We still have plenty of space on earth, even without seasteading and terraforming the deserts, and after that there are several empty p
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by chr1 7y ago
It appears there is a significant number of people on hn who strongly disagree that having kids is good, and downvote all comments suggesting that. But if there is a purpose at all then the best strategy to find it is increasing the future
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by chr1 7y ago
Reducing suffering doesn't seem to be a good criterion, because it has a trivial solution of reducing all life. The pain, the process of suffering itself is not bad, it is just a signal that what one wanted to do will not be possible t
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by chr1 7y ago
Interesting, but maybe it referred to the Urmia and Van Lakes, because initially Urartu kingdom was smaller and was mostly between the two lakes. Do any of toponym similarites in https://allinnet.info/antiquities/armeni
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by chr1 7y ago
Armenian has large Hurro-Urartian influence, so many armenian words are not related to the Proto-Indo-European, and there have been ancient migrations from Anatolia to Britain through Iberia https://www.bbc.com/news/sci
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by chr1 7y ago
This can be true, because Armenian language has large admixture of Urartian and Hurrian words, and most of the words shared with Euskara seem to be from this non-IndoEuropean part of the language.
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by chr1 7y ago
I never talked about people who are vegan for health reasons (†). I was talking about people who are not vegan, and would like to eat less meat if it is healthy. The reasons you describe is exactly why vegan burgers are not appealing to the
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by chr1 7y ago
I believe with fixed 20k UBI, that is increasing when income tax decreases, the hyperinflation would happen very quickly (1-2 year) much quicker than the business cycles. But even if i am wrong it is better to start with small and conservat
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by chr1 7y ago
I agree with the parent that the issues you show are not comparable with what is happening in china. Of course US as a country did many wrong things, for instance the treatment of native Indian people in 1800s was directly comparable to wha
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by chr1 7y ago
If economy goes down and you keep printing money not backed by anything, the value of the money goes down and you end up with hyperinflation like in Venezuela or Zimbabwe. So that's a very useful feedback loop: if too many people decid
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by chr1 7y ago
Make donation to SENS foundation! But even if rejuvenation drugs are not ready in time for you it is not a reason to want to die sooner. The things you want to do now are mostly determined by your intellectual abilities, and if there was a
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by chr1 7y ago
Mirroring the sentence sure looks cool and makes the two situations look so equal, but any US citizen is free to criticize US prisons, and free to find information about them. This is very different from China which desperately tries to hid
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by chr1 7y ago
It may be better to index it to the percentage of total income tax paid by everybody to prevent feedback loops, when higher ubi increases cost of living, increasing ubi and eventually driving the whole economy off the cliff. Something like
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by chr1 7y ago
After reading the linked article i don't think the two are anything comparable. Too little food, cramped cells, people taking turns to sleep, not being allowed to talk with each other, being led to toilet at the set time with whole cel
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by chr1 7y ago
This may seem unrelated, but if US was willing to worsen its relations with china, and introduce tarifs punishing its own economy, it should have done it as sanctions against the horrible things China does to people in Xinjiang. Stories tol
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by chr1 7y ago
It depends on what do you mean by climate engineering. If you mean randomly dumping large amounts of sulfur in stratosphere then it is exactly like shooting another bullet, but if it is done by more controlled devices it is like using a sca
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by chr1 7y ago
Exactly! But instead of one massive sunshade we would be better off using many small ones, which would allow us to control the local weather. Two possible technologies that seem promising to me are large nitrogen filled balloons with solar
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by chr1 7y ago
Market for vegan burgers that have the same health effect as non-vegan burgers is vegans (including people who try to become vegans). Because if it tastes the same or worse as meat costs about the same (usually more), what is the reason to
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by chr1 7y ago
What alternative do you propose for them? emigrate now? By 2047 many things could change, maybe China would become more democratic, maybe it would be easier to build a floating city, maybe indeed China would agree to leave more autonomy. Th

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