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My understanding of the uncanny valley is that it doesn't get better, it only gets worse!

Fascinating. I think that the capacity of nuclear weapons and MAD decreased the likelihood of future world wars to so low as to be effectively none. But this article kinda opens th…

I had heard the relationship between countries with better football teams having higher rates of t gondii, now it all makes sense

Ugly business is industrialization. I suppose it's seems to be the most noble application of technology to avoid the techno-horrors of the past in the future. But there are always …

"Keep in mind that ideally, you want your market to be addicted to you. You don’t want to be addicted to your market." Brilliant

Attention and ecological wealth

What is their ethics and motive? This is #1 question regardless of smartness imo

Ah, gotcha. Yes my risk assessment was prehensile.

Risk perception. Clarify?

I love this. I always wonder why I have almost no interest in novels now although I spent my entire youth buried in them. Occasionally I feel guilty. But I think life became the no…

I binge read Doestoeski at the end of highschool and he remains a major influence on me to this day. The reason is that, encountering life's most challenging experiences (which are…

It's a well meaning article. My first thought is that it's generated by AI in the service of some moderate yet far reaching religious org. "Finding our intrinsic values is no trivi…

Humans are wiping out the planetary biome as predicted

The big news in Science (big S for the institution of) is the existential crises of the Anthropocene, the art and technology of sustainably occupying planet e, radically transformi…

With respect, I think you missed the point of the article! It's that we are all 10x engineers in the right context, even if that's providing the context for someone else to be 10x,…

what is collapsing is the planetary ecosystem, thanks to industrial practice. Especially in North America suburban sprawl and industrial agriculture and waste have eaten into and d…

Others feel that weird is the greatest compliment.

Use of the word conscious here is interesting. Is there any doubt that fungi are conscious of what they are conscious of? I think that we have to be careful. Speaking philosophical…

I think it's more that the geneticists have the sense of humor.

No link because people who like to read about hackers might be offended? Ok

Even in Davis CA which prides itself on being a primier bike friendy city and most people have bikes, it's similar to what I'm reading in the comments: bike lanes are painted in an…

I find this absolutely fascinating, especially in the context of emergent technology. One could speculate: will persistent interactive mass media platforms eliminate or vastly redu…

We can and should call this a holocaust and we are the good Germans.

I suppose as someone interested in cancel culture I would wonder respectfully why there's anything wrong with celebrating beauty as a feminine attribute, or with comparing a beauti…

Love the name