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I have no experience with this, but there are apps you can get which turn the screen from full colour to greytone. apparently it really cuts out the addictive quality for a lot of …

I think getting good at getting good at things is also good to do at that age. I'm in favour of encouraging kids to study broadly, but I've also ready very compelling accounts of w…

One thing I found when looking into investing in Asia is that p/e ratios are... extreme.

I'm not an expert either, but you might be interested in the book 'Superforecasting' by Tetlock and Gardner - they have done some (IMHO) very interesting research on predictions ma…

Wouldn't we have a robot steer the light sail as it got closer? Genuine question, this is well outside my wheelhouse.

Wild honeybee colonies used to exist, though granted they were a new import.

Oh now you're just tempting fate. Surely that distinction goes to the cockroaches?

The ideology of growth being dealt a genuinely humiliating defeat would involve massive depopulation event anyway. It seems far better to shift away from growth-dependent economics…

The only thing I could possibly see working for what you're envisioning is building it on top of the Neuralink if a version 1.0 ever comes out.

When you say 'fix' do you mean 'prevent a two-degree shift' or 'transition to an zero-net-emissions economy'? Or do you mean we can avoid some survivable threshold higher than two …

OP here on a different device, a lot of people have been asking about my beef with Youtube, so I'll try and put what I noticed in a timeline. 1. Youtube comes out with the promise …

I always give myself five minutes in which I can flip the coin as many times as I like, but at the end of that I have to go with the face that's showing. It's pretty interesting - …

I believe it was Charles Stross who had a character say "We would like to have Albert Einstein working in the patent office, but it still needs to function if we hire Mr. Bean".

I would add to your list, "cheaper". Any drone that can be swarmed and taken down by cheaper drones is probably a bad investment.

Japan is probably more concerned about boosting their declining pop rate, which is inversely correlated with women's education, than expanding their economy in the short term and a…

There is a school of philosophy that newton's laws of motion apply to the political realm - "any action taken to benefit a minority group will result in an equal and opposite count…

I don't understand why you can't tell them the reason you're leaving without burning a bridge - "I don't work well in an open-office environment, I found I was constantly distracte…

Discoverability seems to be a challenge on just about every streaming platform. It doesn't seem that difficult to write an algorithm that balances novelty with comfort, and yet nob…

>What structures today are likely to survive long term? The Georgia Guidestones come to mind. I've been quite interested in the pre-ice age golden age theory lately but I think the…

Then why is it profitable to recycle glass?

funny - King actually has a quote on this that stuck with me quite a while. "Some books you read for the story. Don't be like the snobs who won't read a book for the story. Some bo…

To pro-alternative folks like myself it just means "not in the medical textbooks yet". Most 'alternative' approaches do have rigorous studies backing them up, just recent and ignor…

The US paving the way for such practices is not exactly reassurance. If the laws are so complex nobody is capable of operating within them, the result is a police state. Being subj…

weird that you're getting downvoted. The only explanation I can come up with is that some people's gut reaction to testimony against wheat is a result of addiction.

Plenty of people are doing it - that's why having the fastest bot is helpful.