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• Commented on Sucker bet (a thought experiment)
  Disagree but I need to think about it to be able to articulate why. Buried in work....
• Commented on Sucker bet (a thought experiment)
  It's a loaded premise. We have to go to space sooner or later and yeah it's obvious we're fucked, us here and now, as far as seeing green Mars, peaceful Earth, yadda yadda. So even though it probably isn't in...
• Commented on Someone please cancel 2019 already?
  Roger Stone....
• Commented on Test Case
  I've heard of other military units being required to have no mag in their rifle while in public....
• Commented on Test Case
  The Uber dash cam is set to lower exposure, possibly to avoid being blinded by incoming headlights. That specific bit of street is not nearly so dark in reality. All of Phoenix generally is barren and well lit. That particular...
• Commented on Dude, you broke the future!
  Musk hijacked a paperclip factory bandwagon to get us to Mars (away from this "sacred" cabin-fevered biome) asap and to light a fire under the ass of EV adoption. The AI paranoia is flawed but even that's a good thing...
• Commented on The present in deep history
  Yeah, I try to be succinct for the sake of discussion....
• Commented on The present in deep history
  Not suggesting panacea but that IMHO curing aging is inevitable, and it would happen within the given timeframe, and that with it a change that would definitely be remarkable within said timeframe. The Long Now Foundation doesn't propose a mindset...
• Commented on The present in deep history
  It doesn't need to happen wholesale, overnight. It could creep into status quo, starting with clandestine experiments. Would the rest of the world really be so indignified that (e.g.) a seasteading micro nation's population lives more or less indefinitely, as...
• Commented on The present in deep history
  I would say definitely curing aging. The basic problems as far as I've seen in reality and fiction always boil down to time, matter, and energy. The substrates of human life/culture(s). If we cure aging, we have both sides affected,...