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@Variform - That was a bit difficult to understand (grammatically), so I outlined what I think are your main points. Sorry if I misinterpreted anything. I don't have the energy atm to address each one, but I'll post it here to remind me later (or for others to reply). Overpopulation is not a...

Oh, I didn't know they had a term for it. (Thanks) I'm actually not an avid consumer of technologies, particularly social ones. I didn't have a smartphone until some 4+ years after their arrival. I'll also be moving out into a home out in the woods next month, and I do think nature has a lot to...

Regarding capitalism.. ..perhaps I'm naive but the way I see it.. Humans are very clever at knowing how to take advantage of each other. But the pinnacle of that cleverness is knowing how to take, but not so much that you can't keep taking. I think it's about symbiosis. In reality, nobody can...

Indeed, so much info in this thread already o.o And there's more to come! (i'll have to catch up one some of those links) Google Fiber - Internet speeds now up to 1GB/second! I didn't know this until recently but Google has become an ISP, using optical (or light-based rather than electricity...

On a few different topics... Rejuvenation & Longevity NAD+ | Reestablishing Mitochondria & Nucleus Communication GDF11 | Rejuvenating the Heart and Muscle Tissues SENS20 | Breaking down plaque-forming 7-Ketocholesterol Telomerase | The Lengthening of Telomeres Josh Mitteldorf - Playing the...

Well, males are first and foremost humans - and humans have much to offer still, as you noted. Our maleness may become obsolete though, yes. Per example, we may transition to a genderless race that reproduces via other means.

Hmm.. @ Kuu, Lor, Phoenix & everyone.. So, how do you suspect things will play out? Also, I'm curious as to what you think of this man's perspective of the future. TED Video - Here He essentially says that with the way humans are, warning signs aren't enough, and that it'll take crashing...

Myo Thalmic, indeed. ^^ My favorite application for it is, of course... http://youtu.be/1f_bAXHckUY The Oculus will be shipping their Developer Kit 2 in the next few months, and I'd anticipate the full consumer release by early 2015. I hope the Oculus consumer version comes along with some...

@TimeAsylum - Higher complexity is one strategy of survival, and indeed a good one. But not necessarily inherent to life, as we see in the example of amoeba. Some things do quite well living in stability with the environment, and regaining that stability when it shifts by shifting with it if...

Curious. The failure of those Mexican projects reminds me of an essay Lor wrote once about how a city is a semi-lattice that thrives when built in a way that interweaves all the elements of our daily lives seamlessly. The construction of each structure (whether a park, plaza, fountain, a hot-dog...

Pwned by Kuu again. c_c I totally didn't stop to think long enough about the other implications of concrete.. or the fact that this isn't a new idea.. or the socio-economic issue behind it. *facepalm* goes to show how perceptive I am. =P I can be a sucker for new inventions.. I become overly...

Solar Towers: 100% Green-Energy Power-Plants http://youtu.be/pTkmTsKLRq0 http://youtu.be/LMWIgwvbrcM Power plants are now being made that utilize a combination of several natural resources such as solar, wave and turbine power. Amazingly, the EnviroMission model in the first video alone is...

3D Printed Houses (under $5000) Site: Here http://i.imgur.com/twCubG9.png China has engineered an approach that lets them 3D print large parts of a house and stack them together in quick assembly to cheaply create whole villages, primarily for their homeless/poor population in Shanghai which...

Genome Sequencing for $1000. Site: Here http://i.imgur.com/8CMBqSl.png So the price for complete genome sequencing has dropped from $3,000,000,000 back twenty four years ago, to $1000. This means just about anyone can have their genome sequenced now, and more massive databases of genomes are...

Masdar City http://youtu.be/FyghLnbp20U This video is four years old, and this city is now just about complete. It is already here, as the first city ever to be entirely engineered from the roots, and to be entirely eco-friendly, non-fossil-fuel dependent, 70%+ more efficient at just about...

A play of words.. I'm slowly becoming a bit of a technology nerd, or enthusiast, and I get excited seeing new technologies rolling-out. I've been resisting the urge to spill over with articles. Err, so rather than make a thread for each invention, I wanted to make this thread as a place to post...

I recently had a conversation with my brother, a sensationalist and realist, who argues he'd never be able to obtain the same meaningfulness from a digitized reality as he does from this raw, tactile, nuanced world. There's so much I can imagine happening at the advent of hyper-realistic VR. I...

The nature of consciousness is not dependent on form.. as we will soon prove, by creating consciousness in non-biological form. The nature of consciousness is conceptual. It is the concept of information assimilation and discrimination, as a feedback system. Wherever this concept can be...

The meaning of life cannot be objectively inferred.. But I don't think it stops there. Because once you ask the question in the right way, then we can actually talk about 'meaning'. And there is some direction that can be inferred. If we're okay to take the topic into the subjective realm...

WHAT.. 0: Guys, the latter half of the video is where all the amazing stuff is! Like from 1:52+ and especially at 2:43ish It's not like anything I've seen before.. 0_0 This is going to be a big-selling product. I wouldn't dismiss it so readily. In 4 days it's raised $430,000 ...that's fourteen...

I think it depends on the person and where their sense of freedom is achieved. How much self-focus vs collaborative-focus is most healthy and sustainable for a person is something that is different for each. But in general I'd say balance is important, yes, wherever that balance may be for them...

The dark is hard to define precisely, but I guess I'd roughly define the dark as the bliss in pursuing, without restrictions, the more shrouded cravings of the human unconscious. (Indirect) methods of self-interest that place one's desires first ..at the exclusion of consideration of others. It...

appreciation of the 'dark'.. the shadow in humanity. creativity.. the ability to translate ideas/images/thoughts into reality conceptual precision.. as well as contrast in general ability to deliver dramatic impact.. such as the geniuses behind heart-wrenching film. this takes a keen...

heart-basedhumility.. as a disposition against the enormity of the unknown/Universe contriteness.. as a disposition to (their) human limitations sobriety.. not nonchalant about life. silently seeking *intensity* yet humbly knowing the absurdity/arbitration of such a thing, thus choosing simply...

Yay! *glomp* ^~^

hey youuuu! where's my pm? =/ *taps foot* :aufsmaul:

She was the nerdiest girl I'd ever seen. A velociraptor cosplayer at ComiCon who I didn't expect to see beyond the afternoon, or wanted to. I mean, Jurassic Park - a franchise now decades old - wasn't even a comic. Then after the event she undressed ...her raptor suit. And I saw her sweaty...

IT'S THAT TIME! Prepare your (inner) perv for something that could end either exquisitely well or terribly gross. (which might be exquisite for some anyhow o.0) So it goes like this. The first member suggests *any* 2 objects/things and 1 verb they want. The next person has the joyous task of...

Hi again. It's curious. To me what you're describing sounds like Ji rigidity (Ti perhaps). The "absolute" disposition of Ti -- that is to say, the extremity of it in as isolated a case as possible -- is one that is entirely emotionally flat/blank, zen, stoic, unsarcastic, unfunny, unwitty, and...

lol, you'd be surprised how many Movies use the same tricks. D= it is a little disenchanting to get *behind the scenes* of it all. nowadays i can notice their tricks and it distracts from the movie's fun. err, but ya, i totally get the thing about lacking the detail of hand drawing. still...

lol, you'd be surprised how many Movies use the same tricks. D= it is a little disenchanting to get *behind the scenes* of it all. nowadays i can notice their tricks and it distracts from the movie's fun. err, but ya, i totally get the thing about lacking the detail of hand drawing. still...

In Illustrator, you can make a rough sketch of something using a regular mouse (via the Pen tool), and it turns the line/shape into points, which you can then move around freely until you have precisely the shape you want. You can then save that img out, and then just drag the points around...

Nice! ...I remember doing something similar in PowerPoint a while back. Making each slide a fraction of a second, and modifying things slightly by moving the objects. (: Photoshop and premiere are good programs. Ums, Photoshop is less convenient for moving objects and more useful for still...

ooo, what sort of animation are we talkin' ? traditional? digital/cgi? cgi motion video? still image? .. crayon-drawn flip book?

I found this new artist, who has a very similar style to Beksinski~ http://kriegsmaschine.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=0

@Analyzer - I agree with your two points.. That the progression will be gradual, not sudden. That economics/government has the potential to mess things up a bit and that it should be watched out for. If you've noticed, there are a lot more transhumanists out there now, as opposed to 10...

*raises hand* I think I'd define a transhumanist as an advocate of the progression of humanity into the next stage of our evolution via deliberate means (as opposed to 'natural' means). Though one could argue that our evolution is indeed happening naturally, because it's exponentially been...

Hmm, I don't have anywhere near the knowledge to even make a qualified hypothesis as to this... c.c ..but I'll try to anyhow! I think that, given how the universe itself is a quantum computer --- the result of which is natural laws as we know them -- then it's not possible to encapsulate the...

Yeah. Though if we take Instagram and Whatsapp as examples of companies taken in by facebook, it seems they treat them well and let them do their own thing for the most part. Also, you'll have other options. Recently Sony/Play Station has finally unveiled their own Virtual Reality headset and I...

The game has accelerated. Facebook has bought in Oculus VR for $2 billion. It's all over the internet.... o.o What do you guys think? Personally this shocked me but after sorting out some mixed feelings I think this was the step Oculus VR needed to secure its position both as a gaming console...

I should know better by now, than to keep posting... ^^; I think I'll withdraw from this thread (pm me if you'd like), and keep focusing on presenting my entire case for this phenomenon in the book i'm writing. It's time-consuming to explain little portions of the theory in posts here-and-there...

@ Base Groove - Sure. ^^ And no need to add disclaimers (though I appreciate the honest inquiry). Grab a snack, this might take a while! I suppose I should start by creating a rough scale of how reads are done: The functions are identified The Primary and Supportive oscillation pair is...

Mhm. =) Objectively I don't see anything limiting about the methodology in itself, but the execution/reading can vary... -- not everyone is equally adept at it, in the same way not everyone's adept at reading lips. I wouldn't say I'm fail-proof. But I do wanna describe what I see to be true...

Hiya o.o Ums, well firstly I should say I took the liberty of imaging the vid, but please let me know if you'd like them deleted (either now or in the future), and I'll take them down right away. =) Secondly, since I visually type via functions (not 4-letters, nor necessarily the traditional...

Well, I got a 3DS and Pokemon Y yesterday! ^.^ (Finally catching up on technology.) I paid your child support *twice* last year, wut else do ya want??

Yeah, though I think DeGrasse definitely has the next generation in mind. The young at home, possibly under parents who aren't well educated - or even dismissive of science. Which is a great idea! :) Even well-established theories of this form meet some resistance to the general public, but this...

Heya, have you guys seen the new Cosmos series? :D Full-Length Episodes: http://www.cosmosontv.com/watch/183733315515 Discuss? ^^

I don't know how I didn't see this sooner, but a team of programmers is refining the interface between EEGs headsets and virtual reality: Preliminary Trials http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p-VYsF-cYY Present Progress http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-kwgxJ3bPk Some have combined this with the...

Hmm, I think in the absolute sense you're correct, and the OP does indeed contradict itself.