gmuslera

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by gmuslera 6y ago
Reaching a conclusion with so many unknowns (specially unknown unknowns) is risky. That life must evolve in enough number of planets doesn't mean that the next one is close. And that interplanetary travel is practical doesn't mean
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by gmuslera 6y ago
For some scale of structures, it may be too dangerous to be done here on Earth, at least in the short-middle term. Some systems are very complex and not well understood yet (climate, ecosystems, food chain, etc) and the risk of disrupting s
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by gmuslera 6y ago
Changing culture runs on money, and the most efficient use for it is to put a feedback loop: you put money, and you get even more money in the short term to put even more on it. And in this you are competing with a few donations without a f
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by gmuslera 6y ago
Considering recent events, I'm not so sure if there is intelligent life on Earth. We are ripe for being colonized by what would be the Starfleet of a different star system, even if they have a Prime Directive.
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by gmuslera 6y ago
A work of fiction can count as prior art? It is not like anyone would not have tried to do something similar in practice, before or after that, but the episode itself? In any case, that episode qualifies both as prior, and art.
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by gmuslera 6y ago
My rationalization about that effect was around the idea that the deeper is your knowledge on a topic, the more aware you become of how much is left to know. Turning what you don't know that you don't know into something that you
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by gmuslera 6y ago
That it seem to come from our closest star system should be a very big coincidence if it comes from an alien civilization. A natural, or somewhat human origin seems more likely.
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by gmuslera 6y ago
Could this be used for making something perfectly black or something like that? There was an A.C.Clarke story about a silence machine that reemits the sound with a delay to cancel it.
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by gmuslera 6y ago
Some does, some don't, is not a new normal, is mostly for power players. But anyway, none is even near at the scale and reach of what the US does. And for most of it they don't even need to hack, just handle a request for the cust
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by gmuslera 6y ago
"Let's move to"... time would have already run out for us centuries before reaching the technological level enough to us being able to move a significant portion of mankind elsewhere. And far more time will take to significan
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by gmuslera 6y ago
Space exploration and research is necessary for our long term survival (1000+ years) as species, provided that us and our civilization survives short term threats like global warming and ecosystems destruction. Space exploration is not a fi
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by gmuslera 6y ago
> 20,000 years ago the Earth was 6 celcius colder. From 20,000-10,000 years ago the Earth warmed 6 celcius. Humans benefitted greatly from this warming and we didn't yet have technology which enables us to survive extinction. We wer
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by gmuslera 6y ago
We weren't there, we might not survive on that kind of climate for long periods, or the plants/animals we depend on. And the change is happening fast, fast enough to not leave much room for adaptation, you will get extinction of k
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by gmuslera 6y ago
Not sure if its related, but this piece of news ( https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/21/business/a-shuffle-of-alu... ) made the headlines several years ago.
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by gmuslera 6y ago
Even if it is DNA, if it encodes the same proteins in the same way than the life here would a be very improbable event. Think in an alien alphabet looking like ours, but also making the same sounds and some common words and meanings with th
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by gmuslera 6y ago
In February came out some statistics ( https://www.iea.org/articles/global-co2-emissions-in-2019 ) showing that we added in 2019 as much CO2 to the atmosphere in energy generation than in 2018 (over the trend increasing
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by gmuslera 6y ago
As long as it can print its own money without a serious devaluation (because the dollar is the standard international currency) it shouldn't happen. The money won't lose its value. International goods will keep their prices in dol
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by gmuslera 6y ago
Organizations are made of people, at all levels. You are not trusting or not of an abstract entity, you are dealing with a lot of people that you don't know from the present and the future, any of them that can use or abuse of the info
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by gmuslera 6y ago
A lot depend on implementation of the app (is more a concept, is like putting Clippy along some modern well-tought assistant and saying that everyone in every possible situation are bad), and a lot on the stage of the pandemy on a country (
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by gmuslera 6y ago
Systems in real life are complex. Limiting them to just one dimension on which they are efficient may leave out factors that make them work at all, or just better. But if you really know every and all components and criteria that may be app
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by gmuslera 6y ago
By now it is clear that is not stupidity but malice (or a combination of both) what have in this respect the powers that be. They are ok with the idea that after them, the deluge. For the rest of us, well, fasten your seat belts and try to
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by gmuslera 6y ago
"different", but not in decimal points. Sometimes what you interpret as noise could give you vastly different results. And it can be bigger than just positive feedback loops.
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by gmuslera 6y ago
That is the difference between a model and the reality. It "should" be fair, but in reality (with all the factors you see, and maybe several others that you don't) it seem to not be working that way.
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by gmuslera 6y ago
The odds of having a particular order in a deck of cards is very low, but the cards have one of them anyway. I think you are looking at the odds from the wrong place. Could have been a pandemic with a simpler virus, too.
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by gmuslera 6y ago
Is not a CO2 reduction, but that to the excess of CO2 that is already in the atmosphere, we worsened the situation as much as previous 2 years, not more. There is little to celebrate or feel relieved about it, we are still bleeding, but at
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by gmuslera 6y ago
Should be counted that we learnt more about the how the virus works, and that we have now some ways to deal for the most severe cases (i.e. dexamethasone, remdesvir)
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by gmuslera 6y ago
Realistic should take into account required time, tecnology, biology, culture, politics and economics (just to name a few). Taking out of the map colonization, and trying a very long term (decades, or centuries) plan to send something like
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by gmuslera 6y ago
A lot of what makes a person a superspreader is not biology but behavior. They happen to be in a place with a lot of other people, they didn't maintained distance, didn't used facemasks, and probably neither the people that got in
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by gmuslera 6y ago
I'm not sure about air, but at least for the ocean each drop of water holds like 10m virus (or at least estimation like that was done some time ago). If air (at least up to some height) carries virus in a similar way you should have a
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by gmuslera 6y ago
Change would had an opportunity to happen if by far most people could think by themselves and not be easily manipulated. But both cognitive bias and bad education systems (sometimes intended that way) goes against that possibility. The syst

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