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It's interesting to see this drive, for transplanting one's consciousness or whatever into another medium according to the notion that doing so would constitute some form of immort…

Well, here's your answer OP.

This modern 15 minute city notion has always struck me as an attempt to steal the branding of the old European walkable cities which went down the tubes with industrialization. A 1…

You could run the same experiment with any fermented drink, presumably.

"You're just so backward, and it's just so IMPORTAAAANT that you do X."

It's always the same meme article. Oh there's all these jobs but the young people are just so lazy and entitled and unskilled and rebellious.

I'm sorry Mr. "Deceptive". I don't feel comfortable providing my service to you, that service being an answer to your question, without first knowing where you live and what your b…

Yeah it's a great post, except for the part where he counter signals himself while trying to have his cake and eat it too. Then again, I guess it was written a couple of years befo…

Which one?

All "shared fictions" are going to be supported by their affiliated versions of the four P's. Politicians, Police, Professors, Press.

In the darkness and silence of the void, no one can tickle my neurotic anxieties, or at least I'll believe so in the moments before they issue forth again from the only thing left.…

Would you consider 100 trillion dollars spent on a research base 30 millions miles away which is going to tell you how to make better insulation and grooved pavement to be wisely i…

Books are literature, literature is language, language is thought, thoughts can be beliefs, and beliefs are what inform actions. Therefore, if you want to control the actions peopl…

I don't think anyone wants extinction, but they'll get it anyway and that's what makes Harari, all the multiplications and the imagined monopolies delusional. I think people are in…

What's knowledge? "Justified, true belief"? Belief me and my friends really, really believe in, with some trial and error mixed in? How self serving and unsatisfying and prone to d…

Sure. Reverse engineering the fall of man basically. But again to the question of why. Why be so nihilistic about life and the world that you want to do it over? Why believe that s…

I'm not really interested in isolated political incidents but rather how they fit into trends across long spans of time. This dichotomy of collective vs individual is also very int…

As long as we're talking about bodily autonomy, biometric surveillance and hypocrisy I'd like to quote Robert Scaer. "Fetuses confronted with an amniocentesis needle invading the u…

Utopians like Harari don't actually have any ideas about even the most fundamental questions like the nature of consciousness, the nature of free will, whether it is right to force…

So is this an implicit admission that what passes for "politics" is not conducive to a functioning organization?

Some people are just dazzled by the promise of being able to manipulate reality in whatever variety of ways they can imagine using comparatively little effort, and just don't think…

Ah yes, ye olde genetically engineered crop product TM. Don't worry boys. Just plug the genomes into the database and the computer will fix it. Guys, Victor Glushkov told me that i…

You're assuming "the world" and "society" to be harmonious concepts but in the worldview of the author they're not, and therefore, for him, there is no contradiction. You will see …