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I like these channels: Tom Scott https://m.youtube.com/user/enyay standupmaths https://m.youtube.com/user/standupmaths Cody's Lab https://m.youtube.com/user/theCodyReeder Matthias …

In a similar vein, and perhaps even more useful, here is a collection of probably 100+ useful concepts and thinking tools (make sure to read all comments and also the comments in t…

> For new installations, wind and solar installations are cost competitive if not even cheaper, with little environmental or economic risks attached. Citation needed.

There is a great answer on Quora which includes this aspect (but also many others): https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-evolutionary-reason-for-mi... Pasted below. ____ There are lik…

I think this is basically the major and effective meme/emotion that Trump plays into: Nostalgia. Thiel also voiced concerns about the state of the infrastructure at a GOP Conventio…

Here is an interesting take on this matter: > Famously, the only reason he went to seek fortune in the Silicon Valley was because he was denied a highly prestigious clerk position …

But MCTS works in AlphaGo because the 'world' can be fully represented by a tiny state vector which fits a billion times into primary memory these days. The real difficultly of rea…

Remember that arXiv is just pre-print and the last page if not the entire paper is probably nothing more than a lame/distasteful joke. Remember that any nutbag who knows a little E…

How much percent of the entire activity on GitHub is that?

> At least it's good for the plants. There are plants (for example hop and wheat [1]) that cannot grow well at high CO2 concentrations. [1] http://science.sciencemag.org/content/32…

To substantiate this comment a bit, David MacKay wrote a good book on this matter: https://www.withouthotair.com/c24/page_161.shtml

AFAIK it's not so bad at large scale and with brains only.

I am not seeing it. People are following the super stimuli of rockets, history etc. while further contributing to pollution and resource depletion. We need a culture that is satisf…

> failing to appreciate the subtleties in how progress is made What are these subtleties? Why is it better to invest energy into space instead of sustainability? It's just heartbre…