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Relevant for Voyager I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQTfUB9AAnM&t=0

Humankind obviously will not die, it will adapt through various ways. Eg health services for elderly will be needed and inheritance will play an increased role as a single person w…

If we started the society/economy from scratch today, the current situation would seem absurd, inhumane and unacceptable. Imagine an inequality in scale of 10000s while you are onl…

Any political system regresses to oligarchy. Both a single or all people cannot practically govern, so a few take over soon anyway. The question is, how are these few chosen?

Kakistos = worst. I am Greek and I have never heard such an accurate word for the modern political system.

Aristotle is very good, but Plato is perfect. Some random quotes: Only the dead have seen the end of war We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy o…

In Greece there is an unjustified support for natural gas. They deliberately stop renewables adoption (no more netmetering, no more batteries) because the Prime minister sleeps at …

I am glad I hear the warm and polite Willkommen hasn't changed. Thirty years ago a 20 something me visited Bonn for Erasmus and the following for medical Residency. Same excellent …

For sure Linux ecosystem will dominate over Windows if things remain as now. The question is when: in 5 or 15 years. There are so many reasons: - high hardware prices push people t…

The last resort path for a failing company is to sell porn. When this time comes for LLM companies, it's the end of the bubble.

The beyond-3-SDs right side of the bell curve makes the rules and plays with them. It controls policy and law, shapes public opinions and enjoys capitalism. The only correct POV is…

You should also bomb billions of cars, presumably while they are parked, and heating boilers. Better option for all: just turn them off.

With the covered surface by a prepared observer being so small and the place of impact being independent and identically distributed over all earth, we can declare such an event a …

There are three possible scenarios for the next decades: 1) return to preindustrial level of pollution, possibility less than 1/10000 2) make radical changes suggested by scientist…

Drug discovery and development is hard, unique and non comparable in the engineering world. It has it's own properties, like "the pipeline", I-... phases and a mere 20-year long pa…

In the West medical procedures and therapies remain under the most conservative restrictions, which on one side saves lives due to potential failures, on the other it slows progres…

Everyone that has invested even a dollar to AI believes the revenue will easily surpass the most optimistic predictions. Ask them.

Naming plays top role in a corp's success. OpenAI chose terrible ones: a cheating, barely legal for the company and a scientific abbreviation for their popular product. I predict m…

The author names the status, the subjective good-feeling, as the common cause and I agree. In layman terms, having kids is not trendy anymore. As parenthood lies in deeper instinct…

Such stories sound like horror science fiction to Europeans. Of course preventable deaths and health related mistakes happen there too but they are rarely the fault of insurance. I…

"Hear me, then strike" Themistocles They are not wars in the narrow meaning. They are long term superficial conflicts, that human history has not seen before. With the modern weapo…

It's very difficult and boring to follow a newborn until at least their 16th year of age, when mental development and IQ stabilise. It would be interesting if we new about the effe…

I am reading dozens of books to my children (mostly of Enid Blyton) and I am able to simultaneously think about something else (work stuff, household, HN subjects etc). It lasts a …

Correct. Depth and frequency of breathing is regulated 90% by arterial CO2 level due to a direct, potent servo feedback based on a sensor in the brain stem. The rest is due to O2 l…

In the beginning, during the WOW surprising phase, I found myself being overly polite and grateful. Nowadays, I spare such words to add others like How do I or I have trouble. Anyw…