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What about the degenerate subculture of "bug chasers"? Aren't they literally asking for it?

Why is it intolerable? I think many who have HIV now deserved it because of their licentious behavior.

I haven't obviously broken that rule. Is it even a classic flame war topic? I've seen more flame wars about vim vs. emacs than I have about this issue, at least how I framed it.

I find it difficult to adhere to the meaning of guidelines like this, because I don't know exactly what they intend. For example, I would say what I did in a face-to-face conversat…

Degenerate behavior can't be punished with AIDS anymore.

I am very much in favor of genetic engineering and gene therapy in general, though I actually have mixed feelings about this. The old song "HIV+" by one-man industrial act Suicide …

As far as overall survivability for an animal is concerned, regardless of the mutation rate, one would be a little hard-pressed to imagine how they'd climb any further up whatever …

A pretty decent game I tried recently with this staple spell was Stronghold: D&D Kingdom Simulator . (super protip: if you decide to play this game, then one thing you want to do f…

Not feeling on edge today? Read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov

[Engineer drinking that black liquid]

Well I definitely think that some computational theory of mind is correct. Of course the critical difference between computationalism and clockwork analogies is that we now have fo…

Oh yeah, true that, I thought the signal would be faint several light years out for omnidirectional signals, like FM radio and TV, I just didn't think it would be undetectable . I …

"But present day human civilization on earth would in fact be entirely invisible to a human-level civilization even one star over." Really? I find that surprising. On a related not…

Not a bad objection then. Of course it depends on probabilities and assumptions we have no real way of assessing.

I suppose there are now different formulations of the Fermi paradox but if I remember Fermi's original words they were about the apparent radio silence (possibly minus the Wow! sig…

Issuing von Neumann probes like this seems like a flashing neon advertisement of your presence in space: not necessarily the best strategic choice. On the other hand it's possible …

The Fermi paradox really isn't an issue though to begin with. The following is an excerpt from the excellent Contact with Alien Civilizations: Our Hopes and Fears About Encounterin…

This may be a little anal but analogies between a typical von Neumann architecture computer and any animal brain are pretty limited. The brain is essentially like some next-gen MIM…