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  • I wonder if its a result of the topography of spacetime? Like, if we were to assume the universe is toroidial, and then superimpose a coordinate system over the torus where each point on the grid is one Plank-legnth from its neighbors, I wonder if the distance between grid squares would look bigger at the outside edge of the torus than in the central funnel? If Earth were near the center, then when we look outward/backward we’d observe objects apparent acceleration outward even though from the perspective of those objects themselves they are jumping from grid square to grid square at a constant rate.




  • Currency is an adequate incentive.

    The data we create is valuable. Privacy is leverage to use against those who want your data - its an incentive to offer currency in exchange for the data you generate.

    For example, I wouldn’t ordinarily volunteer to let a corporation track me. However, my car insurance company pays me hundreds of dollars annually for the privilege of having a tacking app installed on my phone.

    Say you suspect that some type of fungus might cure cancer, so you spend $50 billion checking each of the 144,000 known fungal species. And say you actually find one that works. Too bad! The fungus already existed, so that’s a “discovery”, not an “invention”. You might be able to patent some extract or something, but if you’re charging $100,000 per cure, people will find ways around the patent. Better not to spend that $50 billion in the first place.

    This is a critique of for-profit medicine. Its an example of how capitalism stymies innovation.








  • I would say just put the content in the body of the post, but it looks like you’re trying to make money off it so that might be counterproductive for your intentions.

    Maybe generate a summary that includes links to peer-reviewed sources, and use that as the post body. It needs to be a sales pitch - get readers interested and invested in the story enough to follow through with clicking the link to your blog.

    Just posing headlines and a link to a blog is, at a glace, indistinguishable from someone journaling their pipe dreams.




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    5 days ago

    unpopular(?) opinion: RDR2 is a boring graphic novel deceptively advertised as an open world FPS. The pacing is slow, the gunplay is garbage, and the core ‘gameplay’ loop is just a chain of unskippable CGI. I bought it based on the reviews, played for about an hour while experiencing an increasing sensation of buyers remorse. Never again. It’s the last game I bought without pirating it first to see if its any good.