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Evonomics – Cost of Climate Change
The Cost of Climate Change The criticism is valid, but misses the much more important factor. Computation is doubling in less than a year. Automation is infiltrating ever greater levels of complexity. Once fully automated systems come on stream, the … Continue reading
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Quora – Why is science important
Quora – Why Is Science So important In 2019? Few people understand what science is. Science is the willingness to ask questions, and to try things in reality, and look very closely at what happened, and try and make sense … Continue reading
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Quora – Ancient super civilisation
Quora – Could there have been a super civilization in the past? Haven’t they found evidence of extremely wide ancient roads under the Amazon? Almost certainly not. The evidence for that assertion, biogeography – the distribution of plants and animals. … Continue reading
Quora – atomic structure
Quora – If an electron is negative and a proton positive, what keeps the electron from flying right into the nucleus of an atom (opposites attract, right?)? Is it merely the speed of the electron? Some good answers here already. … Continue reading
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Foundations of Logic group – understanding self
Foundations of Logic – “In concise words, tell us how the idea that we cannot know who we are and be who we are at the same time can be overcome.” What does the best evidence we have seem to … Continue reading
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Astrobiology
Sigurd in Foundations of logic group – thread on Astrobiology – started with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21m6KxAIGX0 That is a very simplistic set of videos (Atstro Bio). Doesn’t really explore the systemic basis for life. Doesn’t really look at the two fundamental problems … Continue reading
Quora – Will climate change effect Longevity?
Will climate change start to affect human longevity? If so, how? I doubt it. We have several things happening at present that few people think about accurately. We have exponential trends in computer processing power, which leads to exponential trends … Continue reading
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Tagged Climate change, Longevity, science, understanding
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