That's what he says, at least. Of course, men in those positions have usually made it a habit to twist the truth to their advantage.
True enough, but we have to consider that behavior is a product of our way of life. Our society doesn't adapt well to truly radical ideas or altruism.
Hedging our bets would be sending high speed one-way generational ships out of this solar system. Mars is not much of a hedge. Even if mars was fully self sufficient, many of the most likely killers like nuclear war probably wouldn't spare a colony on mars. I'm not saying that we shouldn't do it though. I think one of the greatest benefits would be learning to run a full blown biosphere so when we finally damage our current biosphere beyond repair at least we know how to create glass cities to live in.
One step at a time. Mars will teach us a lot of what we'll need to do something like that.
Nash is a schizophrenic who ended up in a psychiatric hospital and is at least partially responsible for the Cold War paranoia of the 70's. Could've picked a better example there bud.
He also practically invented Game Theory which revolutionized science, sociology, and mathematics. Sometimes it takes someone with extremely abnormal thinking to see what others can't. John Nash recovered from his problems and was awarded a Nobel Prize in Economic Science in 1994 and a Double Helix medal in 2010. I don't think I could have picked a better example.
There is no way to "safeguard humanity" (at least in a physical sense). It's called "entropy".
We can hedge our bets, though.
I think Musk just jumped the shark.
That's what people said about Tesla and just about every real thinker of the past. It doesn't mean he isn't at least a little crazy. Crazy can be good. Take John Nash for example.
Each Tomahawk missile costs about 1.41 million. The cost of a 16 in artillery shell is about $500. If we are going to waste money can we at least do it a little more efficiently?
A Tomahawk is (ideally) less likely to go off target than an artillery shell. When a Tomahawk happens to hit non-combatants it's called a malfunction. When a Tomahawk is working correctly it will always hit the correct target, no matter where that target may be, and inflict minimal collateral damage. Collateral damage is also a malfunction. Only barbarians would use cheap artillery and take responsibility for harming those inclined to be anywhere near the intended target.
Right... So, people have stopped buying monitors from Dell simply because they can buy similar Korean monitors direct on eBay? No? Oh, right, because people like to have warranties and have the ability to get stuff replaced in a timely manner when it fails.
I have stopped buying electronics from US companies because I can get the same quality (sometimes better) buying directly from Chinese factories. The prices are better and they offer 6 month warranties on just about anything (and I have tested these warranties).
Creativity is one important skill children need to develop. I think this kind of effusive praise willfully ignores that sometimes these activities can and do take the place of other important childhood activities in some cases.
And that brings me to how I kind of lament the lack of textual information in modern games. I learned a rather large amount of reading(and vocabulary) skills by trying to understand what games were saying as a child.
The universality of voice acting harms how much children can develop by reading.
100% this. I hated reading as a child until I came across Final Fantasy 6.
Those would be called "antivirals"
No, we're calling them magnets now. The next step is finding out how magnets work.
Translation:
Mom, you cannot know whether I've saw my brother doing bad things while I hid in the closet and watched... Otherwise he will know someone was watching from the closet and never again will forget to check if someone is in there.
It will wreck the whole tattling mission so I cannot ever spy on him again. There's just no other way except the ONE way I chose and since I think I'm so clever it's just better to never tell anyone what my brother is doing since my ability to spy on him from the closet is actually more important than whatever wrong I'm catching him doing.
I'm totally against spying on our own populace, especially by the NSA which wasn't created with that intent at all. There is some reason they are doing it and we need to find out why and who is having them do it. Are they acting outside of government authority or is someone in government endorsing what they're doing? If the NSA is acting on it's own abolishing the NSA might be a solution. If what they're doing is being authorized behind closed doors getting rid of them won't change a thing, it'll just put a different label on it.
What I was getting at is we don't know the full extent of what they are doing. We know they are spying on us. We don't know what they are doing for us, if anything. They probably can't tell us exactly what they are doing to benefit us because it would wreck that part of their mission. We're in a Catch-22. We need to find out whether they work for the people or someone else, and go from there.
To do nothing is to be nothing.
