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Thank you for this article. It is so refreshing to see a level-headed and sensibly epistemological take on the ever burgeoning buffet of sensational multiverse fare. It's not that …

'Ecologically, humanity has been noted as an unprecedented "global superpredator"'...

It's pretty, but your post in a nutshell: We are too full of ourselves to admit the transcendental beauty and value of our world soooo...drugs. ??

Yes. This exactly.

Out of curiosity - why was the above post flagged? It didn't violate any of the HN commenting rules. It didn't advocate for/against atheism/religion (this was explicitly stated), a…

Long story short - because it's deeply un-American. Atheism is fundamentally at odds with the values and ideals of the founding fathers and the vision they had for America. Remembe…

Socialism. /thread

But then there's the small matter that social media doesn't actually make anything better...it just makes a bunch of things worse.

The point still stands: soldering-iron wielding neo-hippies having an orgy in the desert for a week isn't a model for society. It's more of an indication of boredom in a society bl…

Long story short: I'm an experienced developer who's been 'out-of-the-game' for the past 5 years doing things other than web development. I am making a mobile app and need to make …

Actually its just the opposite - most folks who invoke 'the universe is a simulation' view this as a 'scientific' way of positing a creator of the universe that is not God. Rather …

Hey Paul, Glad to hear FBP is going strong. You may not remember me but I had a chance to work with you many years ago on getting the Java based FBP framework to input/output HTML …