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Liberal cosmopolitan cities can thrive as a subculture society. Not going against each other is the real meaning of tolerance–liking, approving, or supporting is not necessary. Geo…

The Brazilian Amazon rainforest released more carbon than it stored over the last decade.

Hanson’s model is an ecological model. It assumes that modeled entities don’t reflect the model and respond to it. With intelligent agents simple ecological modelling may not work.…

Why I Am Not A Technocrat by E. Glen Weyl https://blog.radicalxchange.org/blog/posts/2019-08-19-bv61r6...

Every Kurzweil's prediction that came true is riding on the advances with semiconductors and networking. Even many of the true predictions are 'on the way' in the sense that they e…

Good selection. 'Return from the Stars' is more relevant today than it was when it was written. Its a story about sociocultural evolution and Lem clearly has a deep insight. (the b…

> I realized that the world in which Hillary won wouldn't be a happy world either. Because all of the drivers of the stress we feel today — minus one — would still be very much be …

It's bad in the same sense as "No true Scotsman" singles out the Scotsmen. Selecting easy to remember overly specific representatives is just way human mind works.

What is more immediate problem to solve: AI-to-Zuck or AI+Zuck alignment? 1) AI-to-Zuck alignment problem: Align AI to it's master(s). 2) AI+Zuck alignment problem: Align AI and it…

The book 'The Space Merchants' (1952) from Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth describes this type world. World is run by ad companies (FB, Google,...) who select political leader…

As I said in other comment illegality increases harmful effects. Culture among users is also important factor. Adderall is the new reintroduction of meth into the society.

Illegality increases harmful effects. Methamphetamines were used legally long time before they became illegal. Paul Erdős was probably the most famous (amphetamine and methylphenid…

Imagine a sci-fi story where you encounter human settlement that consumes solvent that is known to causes violence and accidents and is addictive carcinogen. The inhabitants use va…

Movies for the large audience must always entertain, but you can entertain different ways. It's hard to describe what the 'Cinema' way is but it's easy to recognize when it's absen…

TalkToTransformer for the 1st: CHESS IS A FUN SPORT, WHEN PLAYED WITH SHOT GUNS. IT'S BEEN FINE FOR 100 YEARS. BUT HONESTLY, IF THE REASON YOU CAN'T KEEP A CONFESSION TO A FRIEND I…

Who still remembers MegaHAL? The source of wisdom like: CHESS IS A FUN SPORT, WHEN PLAYED WITH SHOT GUNS. and COWS FLY LIKE CLOUDS BUT THEY ARE NEVER COMPLETELY SUCCESSFUL.

Bob belongs to a race that turns masculine when called with a name as it sounds when you read it left to right and feminine when you read it from right to left.

Adams was extreme procrastinator. He could not self-manage his work once he had wealth and had no need to write for living. Once his editor rented cheap hotel room, removed all dis…

I find this theory compelling. Bob the Hacker was running artificial life simulation where the physics was classical Newtonian, space Euclidean and only the surface of the Earth wa…

Howto prove you are a God: Create a json file {"msg":"I am a God. My name is Bob.", "sha256":"78A873E..."} where the hash is the checksum of the file including the checksum. It wou…

What you describe is the core issue in existentialist philosophy. Being free means having the freedom to choose the meaning for yourself. That kind of freedom of purpose and ultima…