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Many wireless and ethernet connections could ultimately network with just a few Starlink user dishes in population centers. I think the base station could be located in neighboring countries. It might be plausible if you have a bunch of young people who are disconnected for too long.

The benzene is the money-saving opportunity. Per GP it's added to avoid a costly drying process. The cost of removing the trace benzene would nullify those savings.

UBI is here (perhaps temporarily), and unevenly distributed in terms of fiscal and monetary allocation.

AI is here, and in the hands of a few tax-evasive global corporations. So far AI has been good for: addictive attention farming, polarization, and social control.

I'm a fellow techno-optimist, but the solutions Sam brings up don't feel effective, or at least sufficient. Our direction is ugly, and Sam isn't calling out the big players to change their course.

Perhaps we need Universal Basic Compute: any corporation beyond a certain compute capacity (in FLOP/s) must allocate 50% to public utility. From there, individuals can vote to determine how they algorithmically represent themselves.

This tickles me. If only my comment had been artful by design, and I could say I was in on the joke!

The field of virology doesn't draw a line in the sand excluding certain viruses with low transmission rates. Viruses that are more transmissible simply draw the attention of the field.

Presumably, a scientific study of ideas would observe ideas commonly transmitted in the wild.

Virality isn't a boolean property that's true for a distinct class of ideas, it's a probability of transmission.

Not telling anyone your ideas is like a mountaintop hermit not spreading a new viral strain.

Is your comment different than saying "some ideas are catchier than others"?

It seems sufficient to acknowledge that virality is a property of ideas. We can then continue using a single term to reference the notion of an 'idea'.

For a deeper look, Trefethen's Numerical Linear Algebra starts with these ideas and applies them to matrix algorithms.

Maybe a cannula would be attached at a certain point? I think the real difficulty would be producing nutrients and mixing them into the blood. I am clearly a nonexpert.

I brought this up thinking about the broader "chicken and egg" ethics & scaling problem of tissue growth. Currently the biotissue alternative meats are dependent on fetal bovine serum to get started. A vegan might object to these meats.

I don't personally support these methods, and am just spitballing ideas on the tech side of the aforementioned problem.