Earlier quoted context omitted.
You don't need to freeze yourself, you just have children, that is how life goes on.
My concern is more with my life, not life itself.
Well, it's not a permanent thing apparently.
Most life on Earth is dormant, after pulling an 'emergency brake'
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Re: Most life on Earth is dormant, after pulling an 'emergency brake'
#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
From glancing over, it does not really seem a confirmed fact, but a hypothesis. "They chose to spend the worst part of the year trying to sleep through it inside of relatively safe caves, and to do that, they sacrificed nutrition and vitamin D from the sun." Also it does not really matter for your vitamin D levels, if you are outside in winter in the north or in a cave. The sun is too low for the body to produce Vita…
> only the Inuit for example do not need sun, to produce Vitamin D btw As far as I can tell, they need vitamin D just like any other life form and can only synthesise it from the sun, just like all other lifeforms on Earth. They might have adapted to reduced amounts of available vitamin D though[0], because they don't have much of it available to them in the first place and because there's really no other source than…
I might have believed a urban legend then. I will look into that.
Re: Most life on Earth is dormant, after pulling an 'emergency brake'
#113When you get caught up on the hustle of modern society and lose yourself in modern technology, it's so easy to forget that you are a part of a larger whole and there is more life on Earth besides human. For some reason knowing that other animals exist just for the sake of existing and even sleep off when life gets harder gives a new perspective. I feel that we humans use too much knowledge and complicate problems eve…
There's some further thought-provoking discussion in a recent conversation with Daniel Scmachtenberger [1] talking about what you suggest.
[1] Moving from Naive to Authentic Progress: A Vision for Betterment - https://youtu.be/tmusbHBKW84
Re: Most life on Earth is dormant, after pulling an 'emergency brake'
#114> Karla Helena-Bueno discovered a common hibernation factor when she accidentally left an Arctic bacterium on ice for too long. I love how this story follows the magic pattern of so much of innovation and discovery - an accident. It's refreshingly human and not a mode of discovery that machine learning is going to completely take away from us.
I'm all for it. People get lucky, then try to rationalize the past with a skill narrative. Then they soak up all the grants.
Ah, but serendipity favours the prepared mind.
Re: Most life on Earth is dormant, after pulling an 'emergency brake'
#115> Karla Helena-Bueno discovered a common hibernation factor when she accidentally left an Arctic bacterium on ice for too long. I love how this story follows the magic pattern of so much of innovation and discovery - an accident. It's refreshingly human and not a mode of discovery that machine learning is going to completely take away from us.
> The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny..."
-- commonly attributed to Isaac Asimov
Re: Most life on Earth is dormant, after pulling an 'emergency brake'
#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or phrased differently: she struggled for her survival. It's a very physical one-off challenge that you can master (or not). That's inherently very different to realizing that the golden era has basically passed and it's only gonna get worse from here, societally speaking. None of the inherent issues our societies has had were solved. They've just become worse with every decade, inequality in particular has gotten wo…
Historically, the people taking up arms certainly did NOT distribute wealth if they won. Rather, the leaders of any successful rebellion just became the new elite and the poor remained the poor but with new leadership.
That’s not how it was among the Germanic peoples at least. They followed people who were called “gold-giver”. It was seen as the responsibility of the leader to bring wealth to his followers in exchange for their loyalty and courage. I think Christianity changed that expectation to some degree.
Re: Most life on Earth is dormant, after pulling an 'emergency brake'
#117When you get caught up on the hustle of modern society and lose yourself in modern technology, it's so easy to forget that you are a part of a larger whole and there is more life on Earth besides human. For some reason knowing that other animals exist just for the sake of existing and even sleep off when life gets harder gives a new perspective. I feel that we humans use too much knowledge and complicate problems eve…
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#118When you get caught up on the hustle of modern society and lose yourself in modern technology, it's so easy to forget that you are a part of a larger whole and there is more life on Earth besides human. For some reason knowing that other animals exist just for the sake of existing and even sleep off when life gets harder gives a new perspective. I feel that we humans use too much knowledge and complicate problems eve…
Had a very similar thought this morning. With the amount of technology today, we should be the happiest, wealthiest generation alive. My grandmother, born in the 1920s, still experienced hunger as a child, fled from the Russians through the ruins of bombed out cities, and, up until not too long ago, had to make a fire in order to have warm water for the bathtub. But I’ve never heard the word “depression” from her eve…
This is overly simplistic thinking. Of Course increases in technology isn't the only factor determining aggregate societal well being or happiness or whatever. But it would be naive and disingenuous to suggest anything other than it being monotonic at the very least.
This also asks for a search for better social technology, as opposed to asserting that we must slow down the search for better physical technology because the social technology isn't keeping up.
Re: Most life on Earth is dormant, after pulling an 'emergency brake'
#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
Historically, the people taking up arms certainly did NOT distribute wealth if they won. Rather, the leaders of any successful rebellion just became the new elite and the poor remained the poor but with new leadership.
That’s not how it was among the Germanic peoples at least. They followed people who were called “gold-giver”. It was seen as the responsibility of the leader to bring wealth to his followers in exchange for their loyalty and courage. I think Christianity changed that expectation to some degree.
> It was seen as the responsibility of the leader to bring wealth to his followers in exchange for their loyalty and courage.
Replace the word wealth with prosperity and the same applies for your later example. The leader is just someone you can’t see, touch, or hear so is harder to displace.
Re: Most life on Earth is dormant, after pulling an 'emergency brake'
#120This reminds me of the fact that humans used to be able to hibernate ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1117993/ ) and ( https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a35033907/early-hum... )
That first article from BMJ 1900 reads a bit like Gulliver tales. The second article is about hominids 400k years ago, quite long ago
400k years ago is not "quite long ago" on an evolutionary time scale.