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• Commented on The permanent revolution
  "Things change. Technology accelerates it. The only thing up for debate is the timing.": I may be reading this out of context, but this looks like facts to me. Of course things change, at the very least, human population is...
• Commented on How I feel this morning
  Neither, I was trying to describe what I perceive as the public sentiment regarding the Internet. Personally I wouldn't say it's free lunch everywhere, but you can get it if you want (for example, when you search through Google without...
• Commented on How I feel this morning
  "Usually resources don't just become free because people wish for them to. Otherwise we would have free electricity and free food.": True, but that's what's good about the Internet and why we love it so much, it's free lunch everywhere....
• Commented on How I feel this morning
  I don't know about dumping, but it seem to me that all the Internet companies do this, because the majority of netizens expect Internet service to be free. I don't see why we should blame the companies when they're just...
• Commented on How I feel this morning
  Great video, I too felt inconvenienced when the news broke, but seriously, Google is not a charity, taking down a free service is not evil when: a. they gave a notice and a way to get your data out; b....
• Commented on Mo' holding pattern
  "What I'm trying to get at is that our culture doesn't seem to value or support such activities very much, especially when there's a high risk of death, so I'm skeptical that governments or corporations will want to support them.":...
• Commented on Roko's Basilisk wants YOU
  "You forgot the bit where people involved have nightmares and/or freak out that this information is truly harmful.": A lot of ideas can give people nightmares, like the possibility of a nuclear war during the cold war era. Just reading...
• Commented on Roko's Basilisk wants YOU
  Ok, this Basilisk thing looks like an interesting idea/brain teaser/logical puzzle, how this becomes evidence that trans-humanism is religion is frankly beyond me. It's like saying everyone at ORBITEC is a kook because someone from there published a paper about...
• Commented on The Anthropic Stupidity Hypothesis
  So? Isn't this just another example of species got perfectly adapted to the environment and stop evolving? The question is, are the tricks we got going to be enough when the environment changes rapidly....
• Commented on It's a Wonderful Life
  I too was confused by this, after reading the complains on the US health system, I was guessing the fund raised would be used to pay the patient's medical bills. But after reading the link, it looks like the fund...
• Commented on Big Guns[1]
  Nobody had an answer for this issue, which I think it's more interesting: "And, in the context of the states, there's another issue, having to do with history. (What does gun control mean, when your population is already armed --...
• Commented on Always Look on the Bright Side of... SF
  "It's a dark series, and gets darker still." You're right, it is dark. I was speaking my subjective view, the Laundry universe is pretty implausible for me, so when I read it my subconscious is telling me "This is not...
• Commented on Science & Technology, Working Together
  "I disagree." Only if you plan to write hard SF that follow the current science and technology very closely (Mundane SF?). I think most SF (even hard ones) would just take the promising part and go with it, since SF...
• Commented on Science & Technology, Working Together
  Are there any examples of recent science and technology development reduce the space of possibilities for SF ideas? I don't see it, I think the reverse is true, for example who in the 1960s would think warp drive could have...
• Commented on Always Look on the Bright Side of... SF
  What is dark SF anyway, I find it hard to quantify it. Grim dystopia is easier to identify, but I think they're a minority (or may be I have been avoiding them?). The only ones I remember reading in the...