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Not all of them though. http://theloveofsports.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/t... Been looking for a Sebastian Janikowski draft picture but couldn't find one.

I came to the conclusion a while back that humans are just fundamentally religious. Even most people who don't believe in "gods" seem to end up largely clinging to some over-simpli…

I don't trust the IPCC because the actual results haven't matched their models, regardless of what the "scientific consensus" is on negative feedback loops. And again, stopping the…

If my car's system had the same track record and fundamental flaws as the climate models commonly cited, I would be inclined to ignore it. By track record I mean predicting a 3 deg…

> The most recent studies suggest one degree of warming per decade on average There's been a total of approximately 0.8 degrees C increase in temperature since about 1880, at about…

This stuff makes me laugh looking back on it. Also teachers saying stuff like, "If you do all of your homework, no matter what you will get at least a B." Pretty much high school w…

I just read "Hell is the Absence of God". I just can't understand or relate at all to the "slave morality", as Nietzsche might put it, of that story, or wrap my head around why peo…

This seemed cute the first time I read it, and it explains the "why I am me?" question that most religions just don't. But I realized, this is would be an absolute disaster if true…

I really don't get people who think consciousness emerges from an algorithm basically, that can be transferred to software. If someone built a gigantic abacus and used to slowly si…

A lot of that is due to the strategy shift from trying to aggresively expand your business by adding as much value as possible, to trying to extract as much rent from the market as…

This is exactly the sort of problem that convinced me that consciousness/mind must be a fundamental part of the (multi/uni)verse, and not something that "emerges" from matter. I fi…

Great post. It really comes down to morality and "cooperation" in the sense of the Prisoner's Dilemma. The more people see defectors succeed, the more likely they are to defect the…

Ah, that makes a lot of sense, thanks for that. I guess what I would like to see is some kind of government mandate to force social networks and the like to follow this model.

The point was really just to push for decentralization of social networks, through some kind of mandated data-sharing interface. The "DNS" thing is probably actually unnecessary I …

I really would like to see Facebook broken up via the Sherman Antitrust Act, or some such legislation. As I see it, the "network externality effect" which keeps such monopolies in …

His slaves worked pretty hard too though. Just saying.

Well certainly individual preference is a matter of taste. For me, "4 pooling" and these kind of largely random rock-paper-scissors choices -- which can often be decisive, as is th…

It's not to say Starcraft isn't a challenging game or there isn't any depth to it, but I am saying if 4 pooling is considered deep stuff, you have to realize that something like ch…

> a highly risky opening strategy that almost always ends the game very quickly In other words, a sucker punch?

Yeah but this game has like 10 times as many openings so it will take much longer to learn them. The reason why memorization is a problem in chess isn't because there aren't enough…

That actually looks pretty promising, but seems like it will have major balance issues. To me the trick is preserve some kind of backward compatibility with chess while finding a w…

As much as I recognize and appreciate the limitations of chess, it pains me physically to see the strategic depth of it compared to something like Starcraft. It's not close by orde…

I would recommend reading _The Creature from Jekyll Island_.

> why haven't millions of people descended on Washington and London Because humans essentially stopped evolving after developing agriculture, and most are only really capable of th…