The real world tech we have satisfies his vision. It was interesting before the tech we have today. If someone projects the automobile, it is interesting. If the automobile surrounds us, it isn't.
We are not tourists on the Earth. We ARE the Earth! We are not the moon. We are not Mars. We are not anywhere else in the universe. We are made to live nowhere else. Period. All this space travel and "colonization" enthusiasm is naive and deadly. It is also immoral to support loudly or quietly a belief in space that can only lead to the horrible deaths of numerous people.
The Echo G-Spot camera, I mean alarm clock, is a revolutionary idea and will be a really useful addition to my Dot, which wakes me just nicely as it is. We need this new ancient device why again? Oh, yes, so Amazon can give bedroom advice, somewhat like the Echo Look does with wardrobes.
Print off a copy of the normal curve of IQ in the population and paste it over your computer to keep your opinions firmly rooted in reality. Half the population is at or below the norm of 100 IQ points - and that ain't college level. Just what higher level job does he think a 90 IQ is going to do? Huh? He doesn't know. And he doesn't have to in his mind because he has faith they will magically appear. We have to understand that these tech mavens have been very narrowly interested and educated in life, and their opinions in areas other than their areas of expertise are mostly nonsense. Like Bill Gates at one time saving Africa with computers when the issue for many Africans was and still is clean water, not Call of Duty. If he wants to talk about tech, I'll listen. Anything else, well, my opinion is probably better than his.
If babies are not conscious, can they be "aborted" after birth? This sounds dangerously like hyper-liberals trying to justify post-birth abortion. Or at least it could be used by them as an argument in support of such a position.
I think I'd rather know how those things come out of the Human Motivation Array evolved over billions of years. And only science, exploring the practicality of those things and the process by which they came about can tell us that. Like religion, they are probably emergent. Getting caught up in philosophy precludes thinking about it from the outside I believe.
Thanks. I didn't know he had a new one. I very much enjoyed his "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, " "Smiley's People," and "The Honorable Schoolboy." Great reads.
I severely enjoyed this when I read it as a young man. And considering the sweeps of time, I think it must be expected to be an overview. Something like Olaf Stapledon's "Starmaker," and "Last and First Men," in its sweep.
I read The Sum of All Fears. Nice. He said he left out some details of the design of nuclear weapons for security reasons. I've been interested in nuclear terrorism and the possibility that terrorists could get a bomb since I read "The Curve of Binding Energy," by McPhee and a nuclear weapons designer. (80s I think). But physics is the law, and none of it is "secret."
Not tech. "Stanton," by Walter Stahr. "This Side of Paradise," by F. Scott Fitzgerald. "Led Zeppelin, When Giants Walked the Earth," by Mick Wall. And I just received "What Happened," by Hillary Rodham Clinton.
I've been interested in the American Civil War since I was about eight years old or so. I was briefly an English Major. Led Zepp was a favorite growing up. And I'm curious to see Hillary expose her psychology.
..filtering such content. That means the FBI would get to pass on whether your comments constituted propaganda or not. Just a larger Southern Poverty Law Center list of unacceptable words, comments, sites, and blogs. Since everything expands despite good intentions, this would become oppressive of free speech rapidly. The goal is laudable, the actual result would be China.
I wonder if it could be used for lift in aircraft design in place of traditional wings. It seems it would also apply to rotating cylinders instead of wings. I would guess that lift would be variable depending on the rate of rotation.
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Sciencism comes up with an expensive "something" to pour money into.
The real world tech we have satisfies his vision. It was interesting before the tech we have today. If someone projects the automobile, it is interesting. If the automobile surrounds us, it isn't.
We are not tourists on the Earth. We ARE the Earth! We are not the moon. We are not Mars. We are not anywhere else in the universe. We are made to live nowhere else. Period. All this space travel and "colonization" enthusiasm is naive and deadly. It is also immoral to support loudly or quietly a belief in space that can only lead to the horrible deaths of numerous people.
The Echo G-Spot camera, I mean alarm clock, is a revolutionary idea and will be a really useful addition to my Dot, which wakes me just nicely as it is. We need this new ancient device why again? Oh, yes, so Amazon can give bedroom advice, somewhat like the Echo Look does with wardrobes.
that you can't have computer security yet? That it is not possible? That what a man can make, a make can take apart?
Print off a copy of the normal curve of IQ in the population and paste it over your computer to keep your opinions firmly rooted in reality. Half the population is at or below the norm of 100 IQ points - and that ain't college level. Just what higher level job does he think a 90 IQ is going to do? Huh? He doesn't know. And he doesn't have to in his mind because he has faith they will magically appear. We have to understand that these tech mavens have been very narrowly interested and educated in life, and their opinions in areas other than their areas of expertise are mostly nonsense. Like Bill Gates at one time saving Africa with computers when the issue for many Africans was and still is clean water, not Call of Duty. If he wants to talk about tech, I'll listen. Anything else, well, my opinion is probably better than his.
If babies are not conscious, can they be "aborted" after birth? This sounds dangerously like hyper-liberals trying to justify post-birth abortion. Or at least it could be used by them as an argument in support of such a position.
I think I'd rather know how those things come out of the Human Motivation Array evolved over billions of years. And only science, exploring the practicality of those things and the process by which they came about can tell us that. Like religion, they are probably emergent. Getting caught up in philosophy precludes thinking about it from the outside I believe.
"The future depends on some graduate student who is deeply suspicious of everything I have said."
...he will be an aggressively creative male. Oh, wait a minute, he couldn't get a seat. Well, never mind.
Yes, exactly. Well said.
...and I wonder if it will be possible with my Kindle too. I've picked books off my bookshelf after decades to read or reread or look up something.
Thanks. I didn't know he had a new one. I very much enjoyed his "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, " "Smiley's People," and "The Honorable Schoolboy." Great reads.
I severely enjoyed this when I read it as a young man. And considering the sweeps of time, I think it must be expected to be an overview. Something like Olaf Stapledon's "Starmaker," and "Last and First Men," in its sweep.
You could do much much worse.
I read this, but the ending is a bit coitus interruptus.
Maybe I should read more of it, but philosophy seems the attempt to understand the Universe without science.
I read The Sum of All Fears. Nice. He said he left out some details of the design of nuclear weapons for security reasons. I've been interested in nuclear terrorism and the possibility that terrorists could get a bomb since I read "The Curve of Binding Energy," by McPhee and a nuclear weapons designer. (80s I think). But physics is the law, and none of it is "secret."
I Loooved the Foundation series as a teen. Great stuff. Many a night up late reading. I'd like to go back. :)
The origninal is a GREAT story. Enjoy!
...but stupid goes right to the bone.
hahah, well, I guess they just got off the hash.
Not tech. "Stanton," by Walter Stahr. "This Side of Paradise," by F. Scott Fitzgerald. "Led Zeppelin, When Giants Walked the Earth," by Mick Wall. And I just received "What Happened," by Hillary Rodham Clinton. I've been interested in the American Civil War since I was about eight years old or so. I was briefly an English Major. Led Zepp was a favorite growing up. And I'm curious to see Hillary expose her psychology.
We are seeing regression toward the mean, and next year will have few, if any, storms, and those will not be monsters.
..filtering such content. That means the FBI would get to pass on whether your comments constituted propaganda or not. Just a larger Southern Poverty Law Center list of unacceptable words, comments, sites, and blogs. Since everything expands despite good intentions, this would become oppressive of free speech rapidly. The goal is laudable, the actual result would be China.
I wonder if it could be used for lift in aircraft design in place of traditional wings. It seems it would also apply to rotating cylinders instead of wings. I would guess that lift would be variable depending on the rate of rotation.