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More on Truth
[ 21/12/20 Facebook – Philosophy of Science – Ron Dai’s comment “Ultimately the truth triumphs of untruth not because of the humans who present the truth, but because of the truth itself”] It all depends what one means by truth. … Continue reading
Lifeboat, longevity, old bacteria
A reply to a comment by Peter to a post in Lifeboat Foundation facebook page linking to Scientists pull living microbes, possibly 100 million years old, from beneath the sea [ 18/12/20 Peter stated “I don’t see how this pertains … Continue reading
Posted in Ideas, Longevity, understanding
Tagged complexity, cooperation, Lifeboat, Longevity, understanding
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Quora – why is the elite now so concerned about the environment
Why is the elite now so concerned about the environment? [ 15/12/20 ] Because the awareness that we as humanity are actually changing the global ecosystem in ways that threaten us all is actually starting to spread to those with … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, Nature, Our Future, understanding
Tagged environment, Politics, understanding
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Alpha fold 2
[ 12/12/20 ] This is huge.Protein folding solved for a large set of classes of protein structures. and visually DeepMind’s AI Solves Protein Folding in Major Scientific Breakthrough
Discussion with Bryce on the nature of Truth
Comments to another thread of Bryce Timothy’s about Truth [ 11/12/20 ] Your first presumption is not actually true [“Because any system of knowledge must take either observed facts or presupposed axioms as true in order to draw framework around … Continue reading
Posted in Ideas, understanding
Tagged chaos, complexity, truth, uncertainty, understanding
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Response to a call to ban vehicles on beaches
4WDs destroying threatened coastal bird habitat Response to F&B facebook Post [ 5/12/20 ] The damage caused by ignorance is huge. A total ban seems over the top to me, and actually counter productive. What we need is a requirement … Continue reading
Response to the NZ declaration of a climate emergency
Response to Climate Emergency declaration. [ 3/12/20 ] I accept point 1 “declare a climate emergency, following the finding of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that, to avoid a more than 1.5°C rise in global warming, global emissions would … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, Nature, Our Future
Tagged Climate change, complexity, risk mitigation, understanding
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Discussion of risks of technologies
Data for praying mantis mitochondrial genomes and phylogenetic constructions within Mantodea [ 24/11/20 ] I found the paper disappointing in the lack of discussion about implications of the work. What they did was use several different techniques to look at … Continue reading
Posted in Ideas, Longevity, Our Future, Technology
Tagged future, risk mitigation, technology, understanding
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Quora – why are all goods and services scarce
Why are all good and services scarce? [ 23/11/20 ] They are not. There is not a scarcity of oxygen. It is arguably the most important of all commodities, and it is present in abundance, and because of that abundance, … Continue reading
Quora – How do you predict the impact of geoengineering
How do you predict the impact of geoengineering in nature? [ 23/11/20 ] Learn as much as possible about complex systems, evolution, chemistry, quantum mechanics, Bayesian inference, physics, history, and psychology, and then be prepared to dance with eternal uncertainty; … Continue reading
Posted in Ideas, Technology, understanding
Tagged geoengineering, science, understanding
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