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I'm interested in operating systems research and I haven't seen this before (perhaps only because I'm just getting started). So, this is useful to me; it may not be for you. Beside…

Very good point. Your total life expectancy went up by 18 years just by virtue of having made it through the first 10 years. Aubrey de Grey makes the same point in talking about ex…

The point is that using posterous removes the added effort that 'blogging' seems to be. By redefining the problem as email, it's much easier to just sit down and write . For exampl…

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there's a meme in the USA that it's the "greatest country in the world" There's the same meme in India, and perhaps in other countries too. It is a bit silly to think like that, es…

HT to Jacob Gabrielson - http://a-nickels-worth.blogspot.com/2008/05/ulrich-dreppers-...

the stereotypical American with no accent :D

>Most of his articles on it seem to be very tl;dr. This is a good start: http://www.singinst.org/upload/artificial-intelligence-risk.... These videos are good intros to EY's work t…

This TED talk about aging by Aubrey de Grey is very interesting: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/aubrey_de_grey_says_we_can... And please do think about cryonics once again: http…

Reminds me of http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2009/04/have-you-ever-legali...

I might try that. Thanks.

I use Word a lot from time to time to write big reports and it is quite frustrating. I know Latex is superior and I have started using it for my PhD work. But I still don't know en…

This essay by Stove is a very interesting read too: http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jim/wrongthoughts.html

Can I buy one?

You might find an answer in The Symbolic Species by Terrence Deacon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_Species

i like it.

This is nicer: http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/o/orwell/george/o79e/part42.ht... And for Orwell's other essays: http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/o/orwell/george/o79e/

> The other 99% of the populace... It's more like the other 99.999%.