Whenever you decide to use any level of force you are playing with fire. The negative consequences could show up even generations down the road. It is better not to use force, and focus on living in peace and safety. Someone has to decide to stop fighting for the violence to cease. Tit for...
There will not be WWIII even with madmen like Bush in charge. "Terrorism" - yes. Imperialism and occupation - yes but hopefully less and less. WWIII - nearly impossible given the economic and political landscape.
Fossil Fuels will probably actually decline in price over the long term...
True - there is always a chance I am going to be destroyed - the best I can do is to reduce the probability. I am open to suggestions on how best to minimise the probability.
Yeah, but I certainly imagine there will be genetically engineered superhumans and I hope that this happens. Really though I think that probably machines will dominate over all since machines based on quantum computing and nanotechnology will go far beyond anything we can fathom and so it will...
Even if you are correct, that it can be done "safely" if free markets do not fund unsafe nuclear power now - why would it ever spend the extra money to make them at the level that we could all agree was safe.
I define anything unsafe that has the potential to release nuclear material into...
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Even if we did have a perfect nuclear safety in the West, which is a very arrogant assumption, how do you react to the terrorist threat. By the time you have payed for the insurance in case of disaster (however small the probability, it...
In the medium term we will be destroyed by some external cosmic event or get hit by a comet or asteroid. You are wrong about the sun destroying us though. It will not go red giant for another 5 billion years if we leave it alone which means that basically humanity or superhumanity will have...
As I said to your other comment, you need to listen to Kaku in order to understand that nuclear is almost as bad if not potentially much worse than the dead plants we use today
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If you read more Kaku or listened to his radio show you would realize that Nuclear Fission Power is a Technological Attrocity and it is way too dangerous for our puny, irresponsible, puerile Type 0 civilisation to use in a safe manour. Solar/Wind - Hydrogen economy would make a lot more sense...
I am 22 years old. I would like my consciousness to be immortal in the sense of living at least long enough to be able to witness the birth of our progress to a Type 3 civilisation. Hopefully this would include ascending to a higher machine collective intelligence along the way. Before Dr...
Interesting - well its a nice buzzword, although I would not have chosen it.
Well all I can say is that long for the day that Singularity is achieved. It seems fair to say that that day will be the day that from the human perspective anything will be possible (or seem that way)