gxon

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by gxon 4y ago
These paper hands, they fold... > My commitment to free speech extends even to not banning the account following my plane, even though that is a direct personal safety risk. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1
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by gxon 6y ago
You could use mining to incentivize the build out of remote energy generation before transmission infrastructure is ready. For example, drop some solar panels and miners in the middle of the desert and immediately start generating profit. U
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by gxon 6y ago
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/20879/why-cant-w...
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by gxon 6y ago
This is actually a pro for bitcoin. It's not useful as anything other than a store of value. If we collectively decide to switch to bitcoin as our store of value network, and retire gold and silver from that use case, then we free up a
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by gxon 6y ago
Yeah, I was referring to the hyperloop and the boring company as separate things. I feel like the Boring company is what he settled on once it was made clear to him how monumentally stupid hundreds or thousands of miles of near vacuum tube
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by gxon 6y ago
Even still on Earth, we're mining ~2% more gold annually. More gold in absolute terms is being mined than any other time in human history. You just answered the quantum question yourself. We can upgrade the bitcoin protocol with quantu
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by gxon 6y ago
Luckily, it seems like he's mostly abandoned the spectacularly stupid hyperloop idea. More tunnels would be cool, but I find it hard to believe there's really that much room for improvement over established companies.
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by gxon 6y ago
It's perfectly scarce and rapidly trending toward 0 inflation. This is one of the key arguments for why it's ultimately a better store of value than gold, which is abundant in the context of the solar system. I'm curious abou
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by gxon 6y ago
Tax advantage? If you pay out a dividend, you force your shareholders to pay income tax rates. But, if you can use company profits in a way that pumps the stock valuation, your shareholders can effectively take the same profits with long te
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by gxon 6y ago
Can you describe the breathing exercises? Is it literally just sitting and taking deep breaths?
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by gxon 6y ago
Manna continues to be prescient. https://www.marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
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by gxon 6y ago
A caveat to this is, what happens when we actually solve aging and involuntary death? Will the world eventually be owned by a single, Bezos like individual simply by the weight of time and compounding interest crowding out everyone else? Wo
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by gxon 6y ago
Honestly. It really seems like the Tesla hype bubble has melted people's brains. Now every new company that comes out of nowhere with nothing more than a prototype is hailed as the next leap of innovation.
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by gxon 6y ago
“Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.” There's something to be said about the value of setting wildly unachievable goals. It takes you further than you might have thought possible.
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by gxon 6y ago
Exactly. Scalable solutions to deal with the waste don't exist.
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by gxon 6y ago
The reasoned panic over Covid-19 was never really about the individual severity of the disease or even the number of people it would kill. It's about the rapid spike in deaths and hospitalizations happening all at the same time because
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by gxon 6y ago
Get rich. Don't vote for morons.
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by gxon 6y ago
Hope and possible solutions are awesome! BUT, this is a hair on fire emergency. We are fully and truly fucked and until enough people wake up to this reality, we'll continue with the glacial pace we've had addressing the problem f
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by gxon 6y ago
Getting to space is absolutely NOT a solution to climate change. We have to solve climate change SO THAT we can continue on our path to become space faring. If we can't manage to survive on an Earth decimated by climate change, then we
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by gxon 6y ago
Exactly this. Before the oil age, we were already rapidly decimating forests for fuel. In a way, the discover of fossil fuels averted that ecological disaster and there are more trees now (in America at least) than 100 years ago [1]. Solar
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by gxon 6y ago
If not direct human extinction, it could certainly mean complete collapse of advanced civilization. Even if humans manage to survive for millions of years into the future, we've already burned all the easily accessible fossil fuels. Wh
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by gxon 6y ago
Nothing we can do. Brace for impact and setup a flexible lifestyle so you can rapidly move and adapt depending on what hits first/hardest. Obviously still support any possible measures to mitigate the damage. Maybe we can still work to
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by gxon 6y ago
Meh. The continuation of the species is more important than some silly desire to mix my own DNA into a new human. A kind of corollary to the Gay Uncle theory. I also consider the memes > genes in terms of leaving a legacy. Shaping a kid&
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by gxon 6y ago
To add to that, even if we can technically support a lot more people with the sustainable resources we have, which I personally doubt, getting close to our max capacity means we will have zero wiggle room when things go wrong. With climate
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by gxon 6y ago
To the first point, I'm not making that argument. It's my interpretation of Freud's argument described in this article. Do you think I misinterpreted it? To the second, I understand this to be fairly well established, at leas
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by gxon 6y ago
It's a fascinating idea that belief in an unseen god set up the Jewish people to be more capable of thinking in abstraction and this is part of the reason why Jews are so over-represented in contributions to science. If that's act
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by gxon 6y ago
As per our current science, we're forever limited to our galactic local group. Exponential growth tends to consume even very big things surprisingly quickly. I also question whether a mass die off event on this planet won't lock u
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by gxon 6y ago
Like I suggested, it's highly problematic. But what are the alternatives if people stop dying of old age? If the birth rate is even marginally higher than the very small death rate, we eventually over populate. The only way to resolve
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by gxon 6y ago
Interesting. I've recently been thinking of something similar as a form of population control in a post-aging world. Rather than individual resource consumption, every time you reproduce, you jump forward in the euthanasia line. I susp
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by gxon 6y ago
This is a problem for both the people who are and are not interested in participating in extreme behavior. Those who are will more likely have a false sense of lower risk than their actions would subject them to. Those who aren't might

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