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by squibbles 6y ago
For those who are musically inclined -- When learning to play a musical instrument (including voice), the distinction between long work and hard work is the difference between spending time and making progress. Long work is mindless practic
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by squibbles 6y ago
With a partial tongue-in-cheek, I will defer to Max Planck, who said: "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generat
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by squibbles 6y ago
I think capitalism is one possible approach to prioritizing problems.
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by squibbles 6y ago
- Clean drinking water is an immediate problem. - Adequate sanitation is an immediate problem. - Adequate childhood nutrition is an immediate problem. - Physical security in crime-laden areas is an immediate problem. - Physical security in
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by squibbles 6y ago
Seeing "facts" and "scientists" in the same sentence makes me uncomfortable. Science is wonderful for exploration, but not so much for adjudication. For example, contrast papers published in peer-reviewed journals with t
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by squibbles 6y ago
Marketing people love to talk about marketing. Identify a problem. Offer a solution that people are willing to pay for. The whys, whos, etc. are all wrapped up inside. The potential upside can be derived from how many people have the proble
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by squibbles 6y ago
Free speech is a noble ideal, but it seems like the current implementation of the Internet has turned that ideal on its head. Yes, everyone should be able to say whatever they want to say, but no one should be forced to hear it. The way we
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by squibbles 6y ago
Salesforce is laying off employees in San Francisco. "The cloud computing company, San Francisco’s largest private employer, is laying off four workers in general administration, 42 in sales and customer service and 119 in technology a
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by squibbles 6y ago
Suppose someone two thousand years ago saw the plans for the Turing machine in the video. How might that have shaped history? Whether it was practical or not is not really the question, but rather how might it shape future technologies? Mak
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by squibbles 6y ago
I see the big issue here as whether people want free speech or not. Technology continues to greatly amplify what a single person can accomplish. A person can give their opinion, offer advice, relay misinterpreted or misunderstood informatio
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by squibbles 6y ago
Regarding "huge, across-the-board gains in human flourishing and well-being," how do you envision economics and labor would play out? What does this look like with regard to resource allocation?
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by squibbles 6y ago
Unfortunately, projects and discussions focused on immortality, or life extension in general, do not necessarily improve the aggregate well-being of all humans. (One could argue that capitalism does improve the aggregate well-being of all,
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by squibbles 6y ago
I disagree that technology will get us asymptotically closer to true immortality. It is far more likely that technology gets us asymptotically closer to a theoretical maximum lifespan that is determined by our relationship with the environm
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by squibbles 6y ago
Though it may be depressing to contemplate, death is an essential element of a fitness function, a requirement for evolution in the broadest sense. No death would lead to either depletion of resources or a stagnation of growth that would in
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by squibbles 6y ago
Mortality is inevitable and necessary. I posit that the purpose of technology should be to reduce suffering. The purpose of technology should not be the redistribution of wealth from the masses to those who are adept at manipulating the sys