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With anti-drone drones.

'Failing Light' (with Harold Budd) may be just about the most relaxing music ever. Everything's just growing and existing, perhaps underwater, with nothing ever happening. https://…

Children don't make you happier but they do make you develop as a person. I enjoy the company of my children and it saddens me how keen most parents are to offload theirs onto mini…

Isn't there are standard just below rigour, though, that is still worth checking for, something like 'no obvious errors within the current paradigm'?

If an activity is illegal than naturally only radicals will express a dissenting opinion on the topic. But this has no bearing on what is right. >could've done a better job at educ…

That's interesting. Why was the 1938 law introduced?

We have home education and government schools in England. Neither rules out the other. We also have non-religious families who home educate. There are probably secular families in …

We school-educated people associate learning with authority and it's hard for us to truly grasp that education takes place most efficiently under conditions of freedom. Repealing H…

An AGI would have to begin with the same values because without them he couldn't learn anything. Our values draw on the surrounding culture and an individual that grows up outside …

The problem with your scenario is that it equates humans with animals, but the difference that matters is between people (humans, AGIs) and non-people (primitive replicators, anima…

Any person (biological or artificial) who is capable of mass murder is unlikely to balk at slave owning . If he really wanted human-sized parcels of matter he'd be better off putti…

Humans need a bunch of atoms (stone, minerals) to survive, and we source those from quarries. This parallel is closer.

The idea that I'll use human bodies if I need a bunch of atoms makes as much sense as the premise of The Matrix i.e. harvesting humans for energy production.

You're correct: I misread the piece. >he claims that they conflate "practice" with "deliberate practice" and therefore didn't debunk him. This seems unfalsifiable since we don't (a…

So, practice is necessary but not sufficient. It cannot compensate for lack of talent. We don't know why some people are talented and some aren't. We can only recognise it in certa…

Animated pic gives me formication. Perhaps not inappropriately...

>Personalization – the believe that we are at fault Yes, guilt is the means by which so much bad stuff gets installed in our minds. Ideas that get passed easily from mind to mind r…

There's now at least a dozen feasible and diverse fusion projects out there. So planners who assume there won't be fusion soon are obliged to explain why they must all fail.

Not overheating food is another healthy eating rule. (Though try making french fries, bacon, pot roast, etc, w/o doing this. Not possible!) Seriously, though, to address why people…

One can see differences in specific laws and legal traditions. But it's the outlook (inexplicit conception of freedom) that develops first and which is responsible for further prog…

The world and its economies become less and less predictable the faster technology advances and so, for me, it's political considerations that matter. I don't want political integr…

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Agreed, but it can't be as simple as merely sitting down. For example, sitting down for meditation is considered healthy, and may in fact be so.

It's becoming increasingly taboo to suggest that depression and other mental disorders are not diseases per se but may arise purely from the use of the mind. This in turns depends …

>we become experts at many things, but at the cost of flexibility and speed of learning It's partly because you are an expert at a unique combination of many things that you have g…