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by pharke 6y ago
> In fact, generally presuming alien technology artifact shuts down experimental futures... Whereas interstellar rocks will require advances in our rocketry and mission staging so we can hopefully find one we can get on an intercept traj
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by pharke 6y ago
My question would be, why are there toxic posts on any of these platforms in the first place even before they are promoted? I don't see Reddit's model as a viable alternative, any subreddit with a large population seems to have fa
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by pharke 6y ago
What's the difference between a bubble and personal interests? A technology that allows no way of filtering out the things you find uninteresting is about as useless as one that doesn't provide any means of discovering new interes
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by pharke 6y ago
Michael Levin's work seems incredibly important and one of the most likely truly breakthrough discoveries I've heard of in a long while. I'm not so sure about RNA memory storage but the point about unicellular life possessing
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by pharke 6y ago
I meant that the largest (by population) countries with high birthrates are quickly entering the same demographic situation as mentioned in the article. They are being closely followed by another host of countries as rapid industrialization
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by pharke 6y ago
Less demographically challenged countries are not a renewable resource. The chickens will come home to roost at some point. Sure you can bet on someone else doing the work to mitigate that problem but a lot of people are doing just that a
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by pharke 6y ago
> (maybe in a hundred years, but if that truly happens, there will be no way to fix it) He also makes the point that collapse often happens over the course of many generations. ~100 years for the bronze age collapse and ~300 years for th
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by pharke 6y ago
There are still people developing efficient and capable game engines. Godot[0] is a good example of one that has achieved widespread success. It's a few dozen megabytes in size, does 2d and 3d, supports VR, and can target Windows, MacO
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by pharke 6y ago
That would be a good idea, provide a list of things you subscribe to and get back a list of things you might like.
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by pharke 6y ago
Solid https://inrupt.com/solid/ ActivityPub https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub See Fediverse for more examples https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse
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by pharke 6y ago
Not if it's organized as a corporation where all of the residents are voting shareholders. That's generally the model that most cohousing and intentional communities tend towards.
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by pharke 6y ago
You're right, vetting would be necessary. Dorms work because the population is (generally speaking) in the same age cohort and stage of their lives, there for a common purpose, and they have skin in the game i.e. they risk their tuitio
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by pharke 6y ago
If the goal of attending gatherings of new people is to expand your social circle then you'll inevitably run into a lot of people that you don't like. A product that enables people to host and attend these events would have to acc
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by pharke 6y ago
The population of North America is around 579 million after 500 years of exponential growth and probably the largest and longest sustained immigration trend in the worlds history with only open ocean as a barrier. We're talking about a
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by pharke 6y ago
I don't think you should do away with cars, we need them for efficient transport and whenever we need to travel longer distances. I just think we should build with both cars and people in mind. Most North American suburbs are focused s
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by pharke 6y ago
In my experience the toxicity you're talking about doesn't usually carry through to in person gatherings. Most people have at least some manners even if they are awkward and being in a group face to face adds social pressure to mi
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by pharke 6y ago
Making it a paid position is a great idea, it provides incentive for the person to do their job well and adds some status to it. I'd like to see this idea carried over to other groups since it's done so haphazardly everywhere else
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by pharke 6y ago
Victorian etiquette was on to this. You need social market makers who are skilled at knowing a lot of people, introducing them to each other, starting conversations based on common interests and butting out when no longer needed. Formalizin
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by pharke 6y ago
Why not both? Seriously though, suburbs would be a lot nicer if they were built on a human scale with amenities within walking distance rather than a sea of house bounded by freeways. You just need mixed zoning really, model it after a smal
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by pharke 6y ago
Call me pessimistic (I'm not) but I think it would take longer than 500 years to achieve a large enough population level to fully colonize the space around a star. You could assume that our current trend of declining population would r
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by pharke 6y ago
1.a. Invent a better cow catcher 1.b. Space faring civilizations probably don't live on planets the same way we no longer live in caves and mud huts, they build modern houses and cities out in space near to their preferred energy sourc
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by pharke 6y ago
FTL is technically possible without time travel, all you need to do is bend space rather than accelerate.
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by pharke 6y ago
> the fact that modern hunter-gatherers spend a surprisingly little amount of their time actually acquiring food (something like 2-3 hours a day) Thinking about this a bit deeper, this is only true if you have a small population with rel
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by pharke 6y ago
I think that calculation only works if you replace "colonized" with "explored". Automated, self-replicating probes could reach every star system in the galaxy by moving and spreading as fast as they can but effectively c
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by pharke 6y ago
I think this sounds like a fairly reasonable solution to the paradox. Fermi's Paradox always assumed that at least one civilization would attempt to "colonize" the galaxy as fast as possible but if you think about that logist
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by pharke 6y ago
Would you enjoy your favourite meal if it were the only thing you could eat for the rest of your life? If not, is it the food you enjoy or the variety, novelty and choice? After a strenuous workout would you prefer to sit down to a heavy me
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by pharke 6y ago
It is useful to add that even distraction and entertainment are suffering and unfulfilling in that they are impermanent, illusory and essentially devoid of meaning. All things have "equal taste", good or bad all comes to us throug
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by pharke 6y ago
Less so now but the whole site used to be a filter bubble of people in tech/science or with tech/science interests. It was actually a fairly positive filter though since it resulted in some very interesting content being surfaced.
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by pharke 6y ago
I'd recommend An Introduction to C & GUI Programming by Simon Long[0] instead. It's much more beginner friendly and is very well written. Doesn't go super in depth but it's a quick intro book so it shouldn't. Pl
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by pharke 6y ago
A slow mutation rate reduces the rate of change if all other variables are equal but increasing the selection pressure can drive that rate of change higher by clearing the field of competitors and providing only one clear path to success.

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