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Looked over the lists, and there is one that was not mentioned yet:

1. "Lord of Light" by Roger Zelazny

The largest known prime could be considered a universal scientific benchmark.

It is also a concise statement that is trivial to verify.

(by "trivial" meaning much much easier to verify than to discover in the first place)

> I'm much more keen on never getting sick than prepping for Mars.

Never getting sick is an enabler to reaching the goal. And the goal is..?

> and hippo, from the latin root, I knew was not as obvious as the animal, but probably something like "large" (clue: the Hippodrome)

Well.. Hippos is greek for horse, and Hippopotamus is a "river horse". Same for Hippodrome, a course for horses. And in latin, hypo means small (and not large), as seen in e.g. hypoglycemia.

Water fast is when the only intake is water (plus electrolites and vitamines). Basically "eat nothing".

Another solution: train wild dolphins to recognize the goal (e.g. sunken ships), do the scan for you, and receive some compensation in exchange for the work they do (tasty food? play balls?). Should check the depth range of dolphins.

My ideal watch also has: mobile voice & data connection (via eSim), speaker and microphone, camera.

Those in addition to what it already has: 1 month battery life, HR and SpO2 tracking, flashlight.

Also, blood glocose and BHB monitoring would be nice.

And I didn't mention the software..

Given that many people experiment on themselves anyway, I feel it's a pity and a loss for science that the outcomes of those self-experiments are not collected and aggregated.

The article itself raises the issue of "lack of clinical data", given that these substances are relativelly new. But the lack of data may originate from a certain stiffness, or lack of accessibility and high cost of clinical trials. An alternative source of information are these people who self-experiment, but unfortunatelly this information is mostly lost instead of being captured.

How could this proposal work in practice? clearly the data would be noisy, contain some false reporting, biased, subjective etc. But statistical processing of a large number of reports (coming from hudreds of thousands or millions of self-reporting subjects) may still extract relevant scientific information; that we're dropping on the floor right now.

An example: I'm experimenting with a radical diet. I keep observations for myself, but they're not shared with anybody and don't contribute to science.

What the altervative would be: I would enroll on a web page, where I would describe the experiment I plan to do before I start it. I would be get a code for a blood/urine work for the "before" state, with the agreement that the results, anonimized, are shared with the platform. Weekly I would report on the platform observations, such as: got sick in this particular way, wheight variations, sleep eval, or any other changes.

At the end, or periodically I would get new free blood/urine work with the results shared.

Research institutes and pharma would get access to the data, to aggregate and denoise as they can to extract the latent information.

Not to mention that "gauss" sounds deadlier than "tesla" to begin with. Talking about choosing the right units.

In the nose as well.

> They want to repudiate foreign held debt, or devalue it, by revaluation of the USD

I don't understand, who's holding that "foreign held debt"? foreign countries I suppose, so which countries do you have in mind?

For one, it's not China, which holds a large amount of US treasury bonds (so basically, China is a lender of USD). So the revaluation of USD would work great for China: one, the value of the China-held USD bonds increases, and second, the price of Chinese exports decreases in USD terms.

So help me understand, what's the plan with the revaluation of USD?

> arabic numerals

Soon to be "Numerals of America"

But the US is efficiently disentangling itself from the entire rest of the world as we speak; so that argument may not hold anymore in the near future.

Indeed, federations splitting apart -- that's what happens in tough times.

It's clear that alphabetical order is open to manipulation. Down that path and everybody in the scientific career will be named A.A.