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Note Elon said he'd destroy the Republicans for their budget vote last June: https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1lojll9/if_its_th...

[0] A summary on ACX of a debate between nuclear and solar proponents; and [1] The video of the debate itself. I thought solar won. [0] https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/notes-from-…

> Much of what's wrong in the current world is actually loneliness, having no outlet for your expressions. A dramatic line. I made a note of it.

To detect a presence, a real brain takes in sensory input and compares it to expectations, and stays calm or registers surprise, and from time to time issues predictions to guide t…

Gah, that would be hard to dig out. It was over 30 years ago. edit: Ok that wasn't too hard, it was in a box. It's "Fields on the Hoof: Nexus of Tibetan Nomadic Pastoralism" by Rob…

I once read a small book for an anthropology class, and got more and more puzzled, and rather incensed. It was covering its subject well but with this bizarre hodgepodge of differe…

Yeah, yes, Schrodinger meant no such thing. But suppose for a moment that a wave, in going up and down repeatedly, is manifesting time itself repeating. Like time legit has an aspe…

Ok, so, try dividing time into a view of it repeating, and progressing. Time "repeats" in that we have days, years; your heart repeatedly beats about once a second; menstruation is…

Here's another answer to the Fermi Paradox, that while life is normal and abundant, there are lots of random possibilities for destruction such as a primordial black hole coming by…

Peter Jenkins did his Walk Across America in the 1980s.

Oh, is that why Tolkien had Frodo throw the Ring in the Fire on March 25? And then King Elessar made that day the first day of the New Year. And the tradition held on until the 18t…

I'd really like to know if menstrual synchronization is real, because there's a straightforward explanation: temporal herding. In the ancestral environment, it drew predators, so u…

I spent some years doing computer simulations of cancer screening. The confusion between the output of the simulation, which is not evidence, and real evidence, led me into a night…

Yeah, I was getting my Japanese visa and noticed the office wasn't that far from Shinagawa Station, so I decided to walk. Everyone thought it was super-weird I would walk that, whe…

Yeah, I was getting my Japanese visa and noticed the office wasn't that far from Shinagawa Station, so I decided to walk. Everyone thought it was super-weird I would walk that, whe…

Could a garment be created with a pattern in ultraviolet? It would appear white, but if you shone a UV light on it the pattern would come out. Many apparently white flowers turn ou…

[0] https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/05/book-review-surfing-un... [1] https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-consc...

builtwith.com gives a lot of information, although the results page comes back with a "Misleading Technology Profile Warning".

Yeah. I'd note the need for a centralized fuel supplier, as you don't want hundreds of little municipal nuclear plants trying independently to dispose of the waste. Have a centrali…

> There's some kind of logical fallacy in this line of argument, but I can't put my finger on a name for it. "Cowardice"? From an old version of the Wikipedia article, "Fear and ex…

Tidal would rely on orbital energy.

Is evolution not brute-force?

People have put in further thought about this and had good insights. A couple examples would be Rao's essay on The Gervais Principle [0] and, much heavier, Bob Jackall's 1988 book …

Appreciate the careful space after "We ".