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Comment · 3 years ago
Today I wrote a budget description for a scientific proposal that an AI would not be able to match. The reason? My knowledge of the social context.
Comment · 3 years ago
A curiosity-driven question: What was the role of the scribes?
Comment · 3 years ago
A form of interaction?
Comment · 3 years ago
They could be "alive". There is little margin to explain the binary aspect in Amy other way.
Comment · 3 years ago
I am a scientist and over the last years I stopped using notebooks for notes... I lost something, you connect deeper with your thoughts by writing with hand. Now I occasionally use A3 papers when I see need, but still. I will take a notebook tomorrow!
Comment · 3 years ago
What about that strage propulsion system announced by caltech a few years back? Sorry really I have no more knowledge.
Comment · 3 years ago
Both comments indirectly highlight a point: we know little about the behavioural economics of scarcity.
Comment · 3 years ago
What do you mean proto-pizza? The whole Mediterranean and MENA regions are full of similar stuff. Why to look at it from our westerner modern mindset?
Comment · 3 years ago
I perceive their main point could be made with a single focus on the 3rd option you suggest. Other options might fall out of their aim?
Comment · 3 years ago
Gingko biloba supplements are great, but you can feel how they activate your psychological weaknesses.
Comment · 3 years ago
I can dig from here, thanks a lot!
Comment · 3 years ago
Since I am an ignorant on quantum, please would you mind providing a reference?
Comment · 3 years ago
This is in the thin line between telepathy and network science, and provides an interesting basis to research further. Would there be a possible link to quantum entanglement?
Comment · 3 years ago
Nice stuff, very valuable collection. I think one of the pics labelled as Grenada perhaps relates to inland waters instead, because the houses seem unprotected from the water.

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