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More About Me

I'm passionate about

Weed, artificial intelligence, fellow humans till singularity, after that, conquering the universe and simulating Earth inside of me, while trying to escape this universe :) OK, enough with weed

An idea worth spreading

21.12.2012 - nothing is going to happen :)

Talk to me about

Anything except for religion BS.

People don't know that I'm good at

Programming, drinking beer, painting, go, archery and determining others emotions..

My TED Story

I'm just a humble translator, who wanted to contribute to this beautiful idea.

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• A comment on Talk: Ken Jennings: Watson, Jeopardy and me, the obsolete know-it-all

  Apr 7 2013: I should be safe, by the time the A.I. takes my job, we as humans will be obsolete anyway. I'm programmer. :)
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  A comment on Talk: Jennifer Granholm: A clean energy proposal -- race to the top!

  Mar 1 2013: Not buying it. Europe already tasted some of the "green" energy, and for example biofuels are not as green as they seem. Just go for nuclear energy, and hope and wait for fusion. But I know that there is an irrational wave of green enthusiasm on the way. There was once a enthusiasm for cocaine toothache drops and asbestos. So do your green pipe dream, and check this comment in fifty years, and shed a tear in regret and late agreement.

• A reply on Talk: Hadyn Parry: Re-engineering mosquitos to fight disease

  Feb 11 2013: Someone from Parry's team: "Oh my god. You're right. This has never occurred to us. I'll bring this topic immediately to the Counsel of the Science Elders in the main tent. We should stop this right away. We've just modified the mosquitoes over the ten years, run millions of tests, performed trials, but what you're saying has never occurred to us. How novel approach to thinking, be afraid without proper evidence, and act on it! This is huge."
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  A comment on Talk: Eve Ensler: Suddenly, my body

  Aug 15 2011: As the quote goes: Life is full of misery, cheap thrills, and then you die. I guess Eve has making a common mistake of blaming humans of all the misery there is. Because who else is there to blame, really ? She is unable to accept the reality, because she can imagine a better place, but she missed the direction in which we're going. There never was a light, and we aren't going to a dark place. If she was suddenly transported to the plains of Africa in early age of humanity. She'd be blown away by the madness of human survival in those days. We are living better lives today, but still there's so much place for improvement. Yet, it would be short-sighted to see our planet as a clean place, which we pollute. Those are just housewife dreams of a perfectly clean house - so to speak. This is not reality. Reality is messy, and always was, at least from our own point of view. Therefore she's hysterical to judge us, while only the status quo is changing, nobody but us is there to care, and we really can't blame ourselves objectively, as there are no criteria, no comparison of how we should go about our lives. I've to refuse this anthropocentric view of us being above the nature. Even though we have some partial cognitive functions, it doesn't mean we're in control of them. It's like whole of life was on a roller coaster ride, but only the humans had eyes to see what's going on. We can shake our cart a bit, but that's about that. Other animals are just riding the ride for millions of year, but we are blaming ourselves for not being able to control it. It's just an illusion. So calm down, don't beat yourself down too much, and enjoy the ride as well as you possibly can.
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  A reply on Talk: James Randi: Homeopathy, quackery and fraud

  Apr 20 2010: Just type his name into Youtube, or watch the BBC covered experiment with homepathy (scientific experiment); BBC Horizon - Homeopathy: The Test.