In the animal kingdom, a somber truth lies hidden within the shadows of predator and prey. Prey animals, such as rabbits and deer, subsist on carbohydrates, consuming the bleak vegetation that surrounds them. Meanwhile, predators, like lions and pumas, mercilessly hunt their prey for sustenance, feasting on protein and fat....
In the annals of philosophy and science fiction, the existence of parallel universes has long been a subject of fascination and speculation. Many have pondered what our lives would be like if we had made different choices, taken alternate paths, or inhabited other realities. But what if these parallel universes...
In the animal kingdom, a somber truth lies hidden within the shadows of predator and prey. Prey animals, such as rabbits and deer, subsist on carbohydrates, consuming the bleak vegetation that surrounds them. Meanwhile, predators, like lions and pumas, mercilessly hunt their prey for sustenance, feasting on protein and fat. Within this dark dance, nature imposes a limit on an animal's growth, ensuring a haunting harmony even in the bleakest of places.
The burden of excessive weight hinders an animal's ability to escape the clutches of death or efficiently hunt the desperate cries of their prey.
This natural limitation on growth serves as a chilling reminder of the precarious balance that exists between life... (read 299 more words →)
In the annals of philosophy and science fiction, the existence of parallel universes has long been a subject of fascination and speculation. Many have pondered what our lives would be like if we had made different choices, taken alternate paths, or inhabited other realities.
But what if these parallel universes were not just a matter of possibility, but of inevitability? What if they were all around us, branching off with every decision we make, every action we take, creating a tapestry of infinite variations of our lives and our world?
And what if some of these universes were not so different from our own, but darker, more sinister versions of our reality? Universes where... (read 378 more words →)
Another approach is to try to put your ideas into words that others can understand. Bring in descriptive alternatives to your specialized terminology.
In a hypothetical conversation about "dangerous ideologies", you might say: "Are we talking about homophobia?" If the answer is yes, then you know you can talk about fundamentalism, doctrinal interpretation, and tribal heuristics -- ideas that can be explained using metaphors everyone understands.
From there you can begin to explain how these uniquely interact with homophobia to create a dangerous ideology, and why criticism isn't working. In a case like this you might not need to do much work. You can take the general ideas of your most recent writing and... (read more)
The answers to all these questions are complicated. While you may not be able to do everything perfectly every time, you're more likely to have the opportunity to do things better if you are operating from a place of greater focus. Your brain has been trained to operate under stress, so when you find yourself in an environment where you need to make difficult decisions, your brain tends to work harder than normal.
When people are dealing with negative self-talk, it makes them more likely to experience middle-nights sweats and hot flashes. When you are comfortable in your own skin, you recognize the middle-night sweats as the result of bothersome clothes. When you're... (read more)
I don't like the concept of karma: as you say it gets reduced to "if you do good stuff, good stuff will happen to you; if you do bad stuff, bad stuff will happen to you". In other words, you deserve whatever happens to you. You can go around punching people in the face, they deserve it. And with reincarnation you can go around punching newborns because they must have done something wrong in previous life...
I intend to wear my mask after vaccination, if I can be vaccinated in time for that to matter, in order to reinforce mask norms. It’s easy to wear a mask. There’s even some tiny chance it might physically matter, and again, it’s easy to do. As opposed to continuing to do costly social distancing, and yeah, no.
Wearing a mask after vaccination would reduce the spread of other diseases such as the flu, thus freeing additional healthcare resources for COVID-19 patients.
"Superintelligence" is a meaningless buzz phrase if "intelligence" is undefined.
Let's assume an intelligent entity much smarter than a human, and call it "superintelligent."
How would we recognize it as superintelligent? What is the quantification of human intelligence? How do we compare entities of vastly different sizes?
Even before we reach the horizon of whatever it is that "intelligence" might correspond to in nature, we'll need a coherent definition. Can a machine be superintelligent? A committee of humans? An extraterrestrial alien civilization? A virus? A herbivore? With tools? Without tools? Star-shaped cells? Neuronal structure? Quantum-mechanical fluctuations? Pathological circuits? Epigenetic trait clusters? Spiking neural networks?
Human intelligence boils down to neurons and their interactions. Imagination and abstract... (read 1519 more words →)
A very long article about anti-aging and not a single mention of the effect of insulin and carbohydrates on ageing. No mention of the use of a ketogenic diet as an anti-ageing strategy.
At least you mentioned Metformin...