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Fantastic work by the team in taking the wonderful things mining has done for the planet and expanding it to the oceans! I'm sure once we've had our way with the ocean and left alm…

Do you want to be less aware in general? Or spend less time ruminating about aspects of your own personality? I found the book "Self Awareness" by Red Hawk pretty helpful in disent…

Wish I could upvote this one ten times, or a hundred. Thanks for taking a little time to type it up.

This is how 3-story apartment complexes get approved in my town :)

Cognitive Liberty and Religious Liberty FTW. Medicalization implicitly promotes the idea that you should need a "medical issue" in order to have the government's permission to inge…

I'm open to proposals for an ethical basis for technological work that's better than "well it's not nearly as societally destructive as what I was building before!"

No, but imagine a world in which brain power was distributed by consensus via a decentralized ledger, rather than a bio-authoritarian central party! The crowdsourced, democratic na…

Well, if we let our "leaders" run amok with the powers of warfare I'd expect some serious repercussions to the citizenry. "I didn't vote for him" won't get us much sympathy with ou…

Until we treat "unintelligent" people in our society with compassion and respect I think "intelligent" is a misnomer for the remaining demographic.

Source? I have no reason to doubt you but would love to see where those data. Most of what I heard is that "lead exposure above zero is significant" and "if you're living near an a…

$GOOG stock has pretty much doubled since the beginning of the pandemic, meaning the company has been having absolutely no trouble whatsoever doing its job with a fully remote work…

I was talking to a friend last week who got hired this way (initial rejection, then a position opened up that seemed a better fit). It does happen, I guess.

I'm not sure what field you're in but if you're reasonably competent, being transparent and honest with what gaps there are in your knowledge can be an attractive trait for a candi…

Canola is a branding name to distract you from the fact that the oil is technically from the nearly un-marketable "rapeseed".

It's more nuanced than that but you could do a lot worse than that list. Fat profile matters, and smoke point matters, e.g. olive oil is great but if you're frying stuff with it yo…

Mice strike the best balance for science of animals who are decent proxies for humans, are inexpensive to breed and genetically manipulate, and who don't trigger much ethical backl…

Both Opera's built-in adblocker and uBlock Origin on other browsers takes care of most of this nicely for me.

Correct, but if we never came up with better hypotheses based on the accumulated results of previous studies then science would have no utility and it would be pointless to perform…

Here's a to-scale visual timeline of the earth's temperature change over the last 20,000 years. See if you can find anything anomalous ;) https://xkcd.com/1732/

Neomania is dangerous. New things are usually not fully understood, and what we understand about them is usually asymmetric: the upsides are generally obvious and occur in the near…

You may be right, but airlines are either the canary in the coal mine or an exceptional case. They operate on incredibly, incredibly small margins so vulnerability to small disturb…

Or, you know, legalize the hundreds of psychedelic plants that grow like weeds all over the world that have the same effect at an imperceptibly small fraction of the economic and e…

Cramming most socializing into whatever bits of free time are left after hobbies seems unlikely to work for most people.

> but it hasn't put a dent in our ability to engineer the earth to suit our needs We'll see about that when most soil is barren and most bees are gone. That is, very shortly.

It wouldn't be the first time...or second, or third, or fourth, or fifth... Source: https://www.amazon.com/Overthrow-Americas-Century-Regime-Cha...