I think very few people celebrate scientific/technical achievements. Those people weren’t celebrating the achievement per se, but their country/nation or perhaps the individual(s) who did that. Feelings of national (and sometimes even individual) pride are becoming more and more politically incorrect; so as the sense of belonging fades away people also celebrate less and less
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Some bacterial species have impressive level of radiation resistance, so it’s a quality that can certainly be evolved much like antibiotic resistance. The most extreme radiation-resistance strategies involve the presence of multiple genomes within a cell as “backups”, this is coupled with various metabolic activities which have the goal to replace/repair the “main one” when it is damaged by radiation. Viruses, on the other hand, completely lack a metabolism and therefore will have serious trouble developing this kind of resistance.
I’ve been a trader for 2 years, it’s just a hobby for me. I’ve mostly done Sentiment and Fundamental but wanted to try Technical and others.
If you were a hobbist like me, what would you say is the best way to host a bot? Should I get my own server? Do I rent one? Or do I use an exchange?
Thanks, great post and I love your logo.
Generally bad advice. I found the book to be very well written, my only complaint is with the content. The beginning was good with some good introduction and very well written definition of some of the core problems/concepts. The rest of the book was just bad; bad advice and very vague in general. I’ve read many books on the subject, most have flaws in the sense that are heavily in ideology and/or somewhat poorly written, but they manage to at least get the basic facts right; this one left like the complete opposite.
Sorry, I’m bad at reviews.
I think one of the reason so many people are bad at it is that there is a lot of misinformation about the subject. Consider it is also kind of a taboo so it’s hard for people to take it seriously. I also wanted to say that I think “Mate” is probably the worst book I’ve read on the subject.
Interesting. The article didn’t mention that.
You mention evolution being proven wrong a long time ago. Care to elaborate?
Thanks for the great reading, I wonder if someone would be interested in writing a zetetic description of a very complex subject, as an exercise of course, to see if such a thing is even possible for very complex subjects or how effective it is. I’m new to the site so sorry if such a request is off topic.
Ah, good point! I have a feeling this is a central issue that is hardly discussed here (or anywhere)
Submission: Low-bandwidth Oracle
What is the most likely solution to the Fermi Paradox?
Answer can be picked from a small number of options (Rare Earth, Aestivation, Great Filter, Planetarium etc.). There are a number of observation that we can make based on the question alone. However, in the end the LBO can only do one of 2 things: lie or be honest. If it lies, the prediction will have a harder and harder time matching the reality that we observe as time goes on. Alternatively we confirm the prediction and learn some interesting things about the universe we live in.
Submission: Low-bandwidth Oracle
What was the first self-replicating molecule on Earth?
Short answer(can also be limited to a list), easy to verify in the lab, which means we can use it to assess the predictive power of the machine, while at the same time provides very useful information.
Similar questions that are hard to answer but can be answered in a few bits, which let us test the power of the LBO and provide massive returns at the same time:
What is the easiest to develop type of fusion power that ensure the best economic return in the short/medium term?
What is the cheapest way of access to space?
What forms of FTL are possible?
What are the ligands of orphan receptors?
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Any suggestions for Sociology/Social Psychology?
At 277, AlphaStar APM was, on average, lower than both MaNa and TLO’s.
What do you think about “Mate”?
I believe you used the therm “genetic code” incorrectly in [II.] when you were talking about cancer, the correct word is genome.
Some people are color-blind. This deficiency can be objectively demonstrated by tasks such as the Ishihara patterns.
This does not mean that color-blind people are missing qualia. In fact we know for sure that at least some color-blind individuals still possess the qualia of the “missing” color.
As a general rule people that cannot smell/touch ect. simply lack the receptors for these kind of experiences; this doesn’t mean they lack the qualia.
A Blockchain cannot validate information received if the hardware is not secure, so it cannot replace the Fail-Deadly Key.
A Blockchain, on the other hand, could timestamp the hash as soon as it is generated to ensure it was created before a certain point in time.
I think the point here is that there are many circumstances that can influence the choice to use formula, and these might have a stronger effect than the choice itself.
Is there any online community where people can practice DC that you would recommend?
The suggestion about Fortune 500 CEO seems good; “self-made” millionaires are a category far enough from STEM, and, due to their status, they are more likely to have reliable biographical information. If you want to go in a completely different direction, how about something like the Darwin Awards?
This post was very well written, though it seems to me to be dominated by views that are perfectly aligned to a certain political opinion, which actually kind of disencourage me from commenting.
For instance, your first point about unwanted sex seems rather strawmanish to me; obviously “antifeminists” do not use the word rape in the literal sense of “unwanted sex”. No one wants something that is unwanted, rather it is generally intended as something like “Women enjoy sex in ways they are unwilling to admit publicly, and to a lesser extent also privately”.
There is another point that stuck to me:
“How could I have wronged her? She had five boyfriends before me who did the same thing I did!”
Well, no. You’re implicitly working on revealed preference theory here, when it isn’t warranted. “She must have wanted it, because it happened to her repeatedly” is just untrue. It could be bad luck, with no agency on her part at all.
Indeed, it could be bad luck, but if it is, based on my personal experience, women must have an unusual, almost magical amount of bad luck. Growing up, I witness the virtual totality of my female friends ending up in relationships with men that scored among the top of the distribution in traits like extrovertedness and aggressiveness, they were also considerably older and a lot more experienced, which easily put them in a position of relative advantage with respect of their partner.
Did you observe a similar pattern growing up?