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Apparently there's stuff like gold, iridium, silver, osmium, palladium, platinum, rhenium, rhodium, ruthenium and tungsten. These might be transported back to earth. Plus there's i…

Yes but not all in the same place, so the ore would presumably be less concentrated?

Hmm, interesting. I was thinking that we could mine fresh debris from the asteroids themselves, in concentrated form. Plus saving the earth, of course.

Plan B. Crash dozens of asteroids onto the moon at a few designated locations. (Use rocks that might hit the earth or pass fairly close). Offer free mining rights to companies on a…

>how could we have possibly made it as long as we have as a species if we are only now realizing that we can't eat enough good foods to be healthy? Partly due to agricultural soil …

I do eat quite a lot of broccoli but I still don't fancy eating 7 heads every day -- enough to cover two dinner plates. So I take a magnesium tablet before bed. Less work to prepar…

>With normal healthy food you should get more than enough. No, I looked into it some years ago and it seems unfeasible. For instance you'd have to eat about 15 stalks/heads of broc…

Say we were to crash potentially earth-destroying asteroids into the moon and then offer free mining rights to companies on a first-to-get-there basis. I think we would still hear …

Not really -- for instance, at HN we pay more attention to comments that explain stuff well, refer to sources, and so on. The bots might be a blessing, in some ways, if they result…

Fasting is very relevant here because it puts the body deeper into repair and maintenance mode. My guess is is periodic fasting plus a modest regimen of longterm repair supplements…

I read Dawkins before Darwin, which made sense. Just as, if I wanted to learn relativity, I wouldn't go to Einstein's papers first.

How about in the process of reading a proof? Each single step is validated by the intuition of the reader.

Indeed. Great view, time for reading and thinking, steps for exercise, saving lives, few social events to attend...

It's more like 'thinkjuice'. The act of making all the perceptual discriminations required to consume 100,000 words cuts into the cognitive budget.

The difference is that the things that we praise Churchill for, e.g. leading the unpopular fight against the Nazis, were almost unique to him. Yet the charge that 'he favored eugen…

Absolutely. The greater the man, the greater the flaws. Yet we still need heroes from history to look up to, and we can't judge solely by modern standards. By analogy consider the …

You can't do a thing you don't feel like doing. Ask David Hume, or ask any depressed person. In reality our ideas about what we should be doing co-evolve with our feelings about do…

>philosophical exports are the kinds of thing that, once you internalize them, just seem like the way things are Yes; if you like a philosophical idea that's usually sufficient for…

Or from the final episode of Firefly : Jayne: Well, I don't like the idea of someone hearin' what I'm thinkin'. Inara Serra: No one likes the idea of hearing what you're thinking.

Well I'm not talking about obsession in the sense of a mental disorder -- but in the sense of that one thing X that a particular person happens to be in love with at the moment (co…

>educational system [...] stop focusing on what you are best at and most passionate about to improve your "grades" Yes. Precocious boys follow a sequence of obsessions. The way to …