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• A comment on Conversation: VOYGER 1 IS ABOUT TO ENTER INTERSTELLAR SPACE. WHAT ARE YOUR HOPES OF DISCOVERYS.

  Jun 23 2012: I'm hoping to learn what the space weather out there is like. It might impact any future interstellar mission.

• A reply on Talk: Hans Rosling: Religions and babies

  Jun 23 2012: The message was obviously meant for people to stop worrying too much about the population boom.

• A reply on Conversation: If you could open-source one piece of technology, what would you choose and why?

  Jan 19 2012: Well, there is Open Cola...

• A reply on Conversation: If you could open-source one piece of technology, what would you choose and why?

  Jan 19 2012: All the basic technology has been open source since around the eighties. I can't remember the exact year.

• A comment on Conversation: Let's save our inboxes by adopting this Email Charter!

  Jul 24 2011: IIRC, in the early days it was considered good netiquette to make messages short and to the point in order to not waste people's time.

• A reply on Conversation: Aren't transhumanists committing the Jurassic Park fallacy?

  May 9 2011: No, that's the perfect solution fallacy.

• A comment on Talk: John Hunter: Teaching with the World Peace Game

  May 8 2011: Wow, this brings back a lot of childhood memories for me.
  
  I used to play Civilization at that age (both first and second installment), later Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri came out and I played that for many years since. It's in some ways a singleplayer version of this (except allowing victory by conquest and not really insisting on peace, but it did have many of the same dilemmas, problems and considerations as the world peace game). It is a very powerful experience, and educational as well.

• A reply on Conversation: Aren't transhumanists committing the Jurassic Park fallacy?

  May 8 2011: I would like to point to an interesting historical case pointed out in a TED talk by Hans Rosling:
  http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/hans_rosling_and_the_magic_washing_machine.html
  
  Time saving equipment allows us to improve ourselves in other ways. It is highly unlikely that everybody would end up with equal abilities, mainly because people have different aspirations and would focus on different things.
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  A reply on Conversation: Aren't transhumanists committing the Jurassic Park fallacy?

  May 8 2011: How can you have a fabricated ambition? Ambition is by definition something you want to get done in the future. Besides, our current facilities are acknowledged, but are not considered end state. Is self-improvement wrong because you're not perfect at the moment?
  
  None of us are perfect, but if we become better, is that not an improvement? And didn't this discussion start by assuming improvements are wrong because we have an imperfect understanding of potential risks and benefits involved? That sounds like an implicit perfect solution fallacy.

• A reply on Conversation: Aren't transhumanists committing the Jurassic Park fallacy?

  May 8 2011: And previous approach of area bombing (with enormous civilian casualties if used in populated areas, just to remind you) is somehow better?