Tag Archives: Philosophy

Quora – Steps to a sustainable world

Posted on October 1, 2019 by

Quora – What steps need to be taken for a completely sustainable world? What do you mean by sustainable? What is being sustained? Why? Some people have tried to build a system that promotes and sustains competition, at the cost … Continue reading →

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Quora – research area to progress

Posted on October 1, 2019 by

Quora – Which area of scientific research would you like to see progress? One stands out above all others – nano scale manipulation of matter. The mining and manufacture of material at the atomic scale. When we get that, then … Continue reading →

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James – Buddhism, Seneca, …

Posted on October 1, 2019 by

Buddhism, Seneca, and Tyler Durden Nice one James. So much truth in what you wrote. We are serfs to an idea of value based in scarcity. When most things were genuinely scarce, the idea that markets measured a good proxy … Continue reading →

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Comment to The Portal 001 – Eric Weinstein and Peter Thiel

Posted on July 29, 2019 by

You Tube – Peter Thiel on “The Portal”, Episode #001: An Era of Stagnation & Universal Institutional Failure. Technologist and Investor Peter Thiel is the guest as he joins Eric Weinstein in the studio Some really great stuff, and much … Continue reading →

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Quora – What is humanity’s greatest achievement?

Posted on June 30, 2019 by

Quora – What do you think humanity’s greatest achievement is? Moved to – What is man’s greatest achievement of all time? Beginning to understand the role of cooperation in the evolution of complexity (orders of magnitude more important than competition).

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Quora – creating AI

Posted on June 19, 2019 by

Is it possible for an intelligent being (such as a human) to create something more intelligent than the most intelligent human? As many others have stated, it depends on how one defines both “create” and “intelligence”. Evolution as a process … Continue reading →

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Divisive Times

Posted on June 19, 2019 by

James R – Divisive Times Right now we are living through divisive times. People have separated into groups that seem far apart in many respects. There is a lot of friction. … Friction creates energy. If you rub two sticks … Continue reading →

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