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The link between cardiovascular disease and general consumption of animal products (in comparison with diets with reduced or zero animal products) is by now extremely well establis…

I'd put it this way. Current society largely (but not completely) relies on experts building highly complex systems. This includes not only public infrastructure like waterworks, b…

I think not only compromise, but more importantly communication. Like it or not, the other half of the country is also part of the country, and you cannot claim to be in support of…

No, it's the other direction (away from monke): go toward open source :)

I disagree with the framing "You are a bad person" (although I think I understand the sentiment), because it implies they can't change (or understand the error). It seems better to…

Yes, there is a lot of bunk AI safety discussions. But there are legitimate concerns as well. AI is close to human level. Logically they become dangerous, specially if given autono…

Do you want Terminator? Because this is how you get Terminator. A blockchain-based distributed giant AI could go rogue and it would be very difficult to stop it.

> Since nations are competing, and we're talking about exponentials here, the cost for cutting off exponential economic growth too soon is likely to become irrelevant to the future…

I'm sure there are some emissions we still don't know how to avoid relating to solar manufacturing, but typically we look at energy return on energy invested (EROI). As the supply …

I think this is a false conundrum. We should use as much energy as we sustainably can, without destroying ourselves, if that improves our well being. But not more. And we should al…

Sure, but I'd rather live in paradise than burn my house. In that sense nothing's a big deal, but it is for me. I believe we all deserve good lives. The best adaptation to burning …

That's to be expected, the global variation over the last 2 decades has been about .2-.3 celsius. That's very difficult to notice, and basically completely swamped by local variati…

How would you design an experiment to tell whether a perception of love is to be trusted or not?

Indeed, I also think we're, as a society, missing a fundamental freedom: algorithmic transparency. That's the ability, that should be a right, to know in particular for widely avai…

I've tried helping keeping and seeding some historical archives, but it gets tedious quickly downloading one by one (and there's not much activity in them anyway). It would be nice…

It's an important problem for fair interaction online in the future, I think. I believe the only real alternative would be something at the hardware level. Your hardware should be …