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Write it down and don't share it. Come back to it a day later and see if it still makes sense. This is a very common trick in cognitive behavioral therapy for teaching people basic…

This idea comes up all the time. Here's the unabomber [1] > If the machines are permitted to make all their own decisions, we can’t make any conjectures as to the results, because …

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It would be nice to restrict advertising but no politician would do that. All internet infrastructure is now based on ads and it's unlikely that will change any time soon.

If you're concerned about cost when faced with an existential crisis then you have lost the plot.

If the assumption is that the major world powers don't cooperate enough to tackle a global existential crisis then we're fucked even without someone bombing a nuclear power plant. …

If you don't think we will have stable governments in 25 years with nuclear technology then we definitely will not have stable governments with non-nuclear tech. Even 2C degrees of…

Consumption habits will need to change, people will need to start eating less meat. Factory farming of cattle and other animals is a large contributor of global emissions. So less …

Solar and wind do not have the required energy density and will never be viable without nuclear. The alternative is to keep burning fossil fuels and blow past 3C because we are alr…

How is this good?

I'm curious to know what those solutions are that will add up to 51 gigatons of CO2 sequestration a year.

Most developed nations are not growing anymore in terms of population so this is essentially already happening without any government intervention.

Can I send a hash of some content and then get a signed response from the ntp server with a timestamp?

> Using the coast of Peru as a case study, the team calculate that depositing 50,000 tonnes of tephra – a bulk carrier vessel’s worth – offshore could sequester 2750 tonnes of atmo…

There is nothing wrong with markets. The issue is with an economic model that assumes continued growth of GDP by ignoring all negative externalities.

Through a synchronization protocol but it's obviously impossible to have perfectly synchronized clocks so the safest thing to do would be to use several timestamps from several clo…

An economic system whose main premise is infinite growth is unsustainable.

Cryptographic identity verification and trusted clocks. As in, cryptography would be built-in and everyone would have a set of keys that they could use to verify ownership of digit…

I wonder when AI researchers are going to learn some category theory: https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/11/04/category-the-essence-... .

> But there came a day when, without the slightest warning, without any previous hint of feebleness, the entire communication-system broke down, all over the world, and the world, …