"pose problems for society as it currently organised" makes it sound like we might have to switch from FPTP to some form of AV to deal with the challenge. In reality, and without wanting to… (View Post)

Graham hancock theory 1. People who trip on DMT (naturally occurring hallucinogen, active ingredient in ayahuasca) see, to an extraordinary extent, the same things, even when not forewarned about the… (View Post)

Sure, there's a stable equilibrium where people happily inhabit a Middle Eocene climate. It's getting between equilibria is the tricky bit. (View Post)

Huge reporting bias, frivolous anglophone media prepared to print this stuff. (View Post)

This was the fallacy underlying the cargo cults. All you have to do is build the airstrip, and the planes full of cargo will come to it. (View Post)