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"The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that make people LAUGH, then THINK. The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative — and spur people’s interest in science, medicine, and technology." Some of them are rather interesting, actually.

I tend to view all platforms negatively because I am afraid that all are a virtual substitute to actual encounters and debates. They soothe a real need and desire with a sort of hallucinatory satisfaction (human beings are very good at that). Which does tend to create a cycle of addiction or dependency. So by making life more bearable, they also validate and consolidate life as it is. So yeah...

I trust my brain to do the work and if I am not able to produce a relevant summary on demand, so be it. What I read is being processed and I do not know how, when, or why, or to what end it will be useful, but it likely will. In other words, all the books I have read and digested, even partially, are metabolized.

There's a Star Trek episode on that.

Research now more or less always proceeds bottom-up so that it's never possible to determine causality from results. Everyone looks for causality, researchers look for positive results and the wheel keeps on turning. When top-down thinking disappears, science enters a cognitive decline of its own. This one is contagious.

Well, some Europeans are getting richer. Move along.

Nice. Thank you Suno! This is very good and will fit perfectly in my current projects. I feel like hugging your face.

I like money tho....

Will take one seminal paper to be published on Arxiv for the house of cards to collapse.

The NYT and Bush was earlier.

And people called me crazy when I started to drive with sunglasses at night.

And people thought I was crazy when I started to drive with sunglasses at night.

Let's not forget the Prime Directive.

Reads United Airlines apparently.