What about the degenerate subculture of "bug chasers"? Aren't they literally asking for it?
Why is it intolerable? I think many who have HIV now deserved it because of their licentious behavior.
I haven't obviously broken that rule. Is it even a classic flame war topic? I've seen more flame wars about vim vs. emacs than I have about this issue, at least how I framed it.
I find it difficult to adhere to the meaning of guidelines like this, because I don't know exactly what they intend. For example, I would say what I did in a face-to-face conversation, and I don't think I'm being…
Degenerate behavior can't be punished with AIDS anymore.
I am very much in favor of genetic engineering and gene therapy in general, though I actually have mixed feelings about this. The old song "HIV+" by one-man industrial act Suicide Commando described the virus as "God's…
As far as overall survivability for an animal is concerned, regardless of the mutation rate, one would be a little hard-pressed to imagine how they'd climb any further up whatever hill on the fitness landscape it is…
A pretty decent game I tried recently with this staple spell was Stronghold: D&D Kingdom Simulator. (super protip: if you decide to play this game, then one thing you want to do for sure is e.g. have Dwarves build…
Not feeling on edge today? Read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov
[Engineer drinking that black liquid]
Well I definitely think that some computational theory of mind is correct. Of course the critical difference between computationalism and clockwork analogies is that we now have formal proof of just how general…
Oh yeah, true that, I thought the signal would be faint several light years out for omnidirectional signals, like FM radio and TV, I just didn't think it would be undetectable. I mean I assume that Contact was pretty…
"But present day human civilization on earth would in fact be entirely invisible to a human-level civilization even one star over." Really? I find that surprising. On a related note: http://www.lightyear.fm/
Not a bad objection then. Of course it depends on probabilities and assumptions we have no real way of assessing.
I suppose there are now different formulations of the Fermi paradox but if I remember Fermi's original words they were about the apparent radio silence (possibly minus the Wow! signal). Anyhow, the assumption here is…
Issuing von Neumann probes like this seems like a flashing neon advertisement of your presence in space: not necessarily the best strategic choice. On the other hand it's possible that such a species of probe already…
The Fermi paradox really isn't an issue though to begin with. The following is an excerpt from the excellent Contact with Alien Civilizations: Our Hopes and Fears About Encountering Extraterrestrials: "The vast majority…
This may be a little anal but analogies between a typical von Neumann architecture computer and any animal brain are pretty limited. The brain is essentially like some next-gen MIMD processor.
What about the degenerate subculture of "bug chasers"? Aren't they literally asking for it?
Why is it intolerable? I think many who have HIV now deserved it because of their licentious behavior.
I haven't obviously broken that rule. Is it even a classic flame war topic? I've seen more flame wars about vim vs. emacs than I have about this issue, at least how I framed it.
I find it difficult to adhere to the meaning of guidelines like this, because I don't know exactly what they intend. For example, I would say what I did in a face-to-face conversation, and I don't think I'm being…
Degenerate behavior can't be punished with AIDS anymore.
I am very much in favor of genetic engineering and gene therapy in general, though I actually have mixed feelings about this. The old song "HIV+" by one-man industrial act Suicide Commando described the virus as "God's…
As far as overall survivability for an animal is concerned, regardless of the mutation rate, one would be a little hard-pressed to imagine how they'd climb any further up whatever hill on the fitness landscape it is…
A pretty decent game I tried recently with this staple spell was Stronghold: D&D Kingdom Simulator. (super protip: if you decide to play this game, then one thing you want to do for sure is e.g. have Dwarves build…
Not feeling on edge today? Read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov
[Engineer drinking that black liquid]
Well I definitely think that some computational theory of mind is correct. Of course the critical difference between computationalism and clockwork analogies is that we now have formal proof of just how general…
Oh yeah, true that, I thought the signal would be faint several light years out for omnidirectional signals, like FM radio and TV, I just didn't think it would be undetectable. I mean I assume that Contact was pretty…
"But present day human civilization on earth would in fact be entirely invisible to a human-level civilization even one star over." Really? I find that surprising. On a related note: http://www.lightyear.fm/
Not a bad objection then. Of course it depends on probabilities and assumptions we have no real way of assessing.
I suppose there are now different formulations of the Fermi paradox but if I remember Fermi's original words they were about the apparent radio silence (possibly minus the Wow! signal). Anyhow, the assumption here is…
Issuing von Neumann probes like this seems like a flashing neon advertisement of your presence in space: not necessarily the best strategic choice. On the other hand it's possible that such a species of probe already…
The Fermi paradox really isn't an issue though to begin with. The following is an excerpt from the excellent Contact with Alien Civilizations: Our Hopes and Fears About Encountering Extraterrestrials: "The vast majority…
This may be a little anal but analogies between a typical von Neumann architecture computer and any animal brain are pretty limited. The brain is essentially like some next-gen MIMD processor.