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by chr1 8y ago
> It's also disturbing that the same people who brought us widespread hormone-like chemicals leeching into our food are arguing that this, too, is good for us. I am not sure this argument works, because it's continuation is tha
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by chr1 8y ago
Two facebooks that need to talk with each other (and new implementations) via open and documented protocol.
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> and there's evidence they're largely disdainful of it Maybe it's an immune reaction. Scientists need to ask and answer to philosophical questions, to know where to search, but they also need to be ready to easily dismiss
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by chr1 8y ago
But does this kind of pondering lead to any deeper insights, and are this kind of questions proposed by philosophers or by physicists and mathematicians themselves? About this particular question i know Wigner's article, and i saw Feyn
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by chr1 8y ago
I would agree with you until i saw the three videos from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18967921 , looks like it is more than randomness.
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by chr1 8y ago
The OA is a scam. Publishing on Arxiv or putting the article on github, are much better free alternatives.
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How exactly philosophy is going to save anyone in a desert?
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by chr1 8y ago
I wouldn't worry about that either. If it is about superiority of children much younger than you, you do not have anything to worry, because they'll be superior anyway simply by being much younger. If it is about children that wil
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by chr1 8y ago
This is an interesting argument, and it shows that although the public version won't be the absolute best, society will invest significant amount of resources into it. Considering that unlike education it is one time investment, doesn&
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by chr1 8y ago
I agree that is sad, but already many people are way smarter than me without any artificial modifications. If i could pick i'd prefer to live in a world where there are thousands of people like Feynman and most people are smarter than
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The problem in Gattaca world is not the genetic modification. It is the assumption that worth of the individual can be judged by genetics alone, that fitness for the job can be determined by something other than merit. In this way Gattaca i
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by chr1 8y ago
Having neighbours with significantly lower IQ is not something that anyone wants, so if the procedure works rich people would be most interested to apply it to everyone. But until a working method is found and proven safe, no rich people wi
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by chr1 8y ago
The problem with anti-reductionist approach is that it doesn't explain anything and doesn't predict anything. It simply says "i was wrong about all those other things, but this next thing you can't explain in principle,
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by chr1 8y ago
>Perhaps society will do well to keep in mind that what we do to animals we will eventually do to each other too Is it a bad thing in this case? A technique like this could help to extend life in some cases.
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Framing the question in terms of "rights that people have" obscures it, because "rights" is an answer for the question of what people want and what compromises they can achieve. To map the space of possible compromises i
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by chr1 8y ago
Sure burning oil is bad and not only because CO2, but also because of other more toxic gases it produces. The comment i was replying to, says that US producing more oil doesn't mean that more oil will be burnt in total, because others
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by chr1 8y ago
If most of oil usage is going to be replaced by other energy sources soon, then using most of oil reserves asap is a good strategy.
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It's a feature, they feel like a part of the web, which is the more important platform, for the majority of people who spend most of their time using web apps.
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Because there have not been any serious reports of fraud and abuse, and the things he built are so important for the future of humanity, that even much more serious accusations won't change the total balance to a negative for Musk.
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You can prevent disease if you make experiments and learn how to prevent it. So in this case experimentation is a first step in preventing disease.
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by chr1 8y ago
Most people would gladly give up their income to ensure their children don’t grow up in a dystopian nightmare. The issue is that not everyone agrees on the way how exactly that money should be spent, and how nightmarish the future looks. Wh
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by chr1 8y ago
Hararis argument is that when the main resource of the country is brains, conquering that country with army wouldn't give you anything useful, and you need other methods to conquer like the propaganda you ention. And because the propag
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by chr1 8y ago
While i agree that loss of biodiversity especially in tropical forests, is a catastrophe, i don't think that keeping a few more insects and birds in our fields helps. In fact it forces us to use more space for agriculture and destroy m
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Very similar stories happen with Russians too, like 300 spies outed recently because of cars registered to gru headquarters.
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Using gene drives to eliminate the few insect species that cause most of the harm to agriculture, will allow to drastically reduce the amount of pesticide we have to use now.
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Would storing genomes be enough, similar to backing up data until it is needed?
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by chr1 8y ago
What part of the humanities do you think would be helpful to engineers? I so far hadn't seen anything that would be useful enough to make me not disdainfull of humanities, but i would be happy to be proven wrong.
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by chr1 8y ago
> how many experts will suddenly no longer have a position of expertise? None. Math stays the same, and the skills needed to solve the problems stay the same. In general new discoveries in physics only add detail to what we know and do
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When talking about climate change it is important to remember that climate on earth is pretty bad already and we need to learn to control it anyway. High (~5km) solar updraft towers look like a very promising way to do it. In addition to ge
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Sure climate change is likely to make the climate worse than it is now, but climate on earth is already terrible in most places, and humanity needs to learn how to control it anyway. If you are rich enough to give a good education to your c

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