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Check out Greg Bear’s Forge Of God and Anvil of Stars 2 book series . Not exactly the same plot you mentioned but covers an interesting variant plot including fall out of a situati…

Edit: I see you linked to the wrong sub-section there. However, overall the contrast between super-predator theory and (self-)annihilation is a bit more complex than one would thin…

"Well, magnetic core memory is the only data storage format that is robust enough to withstand high-radiation environments. Jeri is clearly interested in magnetic logic and memory …

> If it scales faster than linear, then your recursive bootstrapping operation takes longer and longer each time, Wait, does that really follow? What if you have a better than line…

http://rollingjubilee.org

Thanks for that. the hackernoon piece in particular is really worth the read. Two salient points/questions/comments that jumped out to me after reading (these are really about the …

To save you clicks, the two pre-prints are at : https://arxiv.org/pdf/1710.09829.pdf && https://openreview.net/pdf?id=HJWLfGWRb

That sounds really interesting. What tasks did you attempt? If you have open-sourced this in any sense, would enjoy to check it out and/or contribute.

In terms of cosmology, the physically observable universe does have (some) fractal structure or features--, primarily to the existence of multi-scale primordial (quantum) fluctuati…

Thanks for this extremely educational comment. I'm excited to read a bit more about DE and CMAES in particular! >>I could go on all day; this was a chapter in my dissertation I'd l…

Alright, fair enough. To be honest I also at times thought the author's alarmism went a bit far and could have scared off serious readers, but as a general principle I still don't …

>>to hear these breathless alarmists talk, they are anti-technology, anti-progress, and apparently want us all to live stacked up in massive cities with no real quality of life at …

Preliminary but important point: what you call prevention is typically called 'mitigation' by the UNFCCC, NASA, and other environmental orgs, while what you have called mitigation …

While you are right that methane wont naturally stick around for ever, and that it breaks down sooner than CO2. After googling around a little, I finally managed to find the source…

I managed to find the original PDF : http://infohouse.p2ric.org/ref/37/36505.pdf Re-optimizing said supply chains in an oil constrained, and eventually oil free world seems extreme…

>> This person is literally saying we need to be alarmed. And why shouldn't we (he) be doing that? Actually the author's goal is transparent, to shake up perception, to provide fod…

First off, the author is prodding people into action by scaring/alarming them. Thus, the entire point of this article is to highlight many of the bad long-tails (note I did not say…