Blangk
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I want to know what's out there in space and I want to understand life.
How to know what you really want and be free from mimetic desire.
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How to know what you really want | Psyche Guides
From career choices to new purchases, use René Girard’s mimetic theory to resist the herd and forge your own path in life
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October 4, 2025 at 1:14 PM
How to know what you really want and be free from mimetic desire.
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Focus on what you can control (don't worry).
Seek solutions (don't complain).
Seek solutions (don't complain).
August 31, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Focus on what you can control (don't worry).
Seek solutions (don't complain).
Seek solutions (don't complain).
Public statements predicting when we will achieve artificial general intelligence.
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When is AGI coming? These experts have it figured it out.
We’re keeping them honest with the Sherwood News AGI Prediction Tracker....
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June 16, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Public statements predicting when we will achieve artificial general intelligence.
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Living soft robots
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Living Soft Robots
Overview Light-guided Biohybrid Robotic Ray Caltech and Harvard Bioengineers Explain Artificial Jellyfish Research Muscular Thin Films: Biohybrid Materials For Soft Robotics Light-guided Biohybrid...
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June 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Living soft robots
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"What is quite unlooked for is more crushing in its effect, and unexpectedness adds to the weight of a disaster. The fact that it was unforeseen has never failed to intensify a person's grief. This is a reason for ensuring that nothing ever takes us by surprise." -(Seneca/1)
June 5, 2025 at 10:15 AM
"What is quite unlooked for is more crushing in its effect, and unexpectedness adds to the weight of a disaster. The fact that it was unforeseen has never failed to intensify a person's grief. This is a reason for ensuring that nothing ever takes us by surprise." -(Seneca/1)
"One's life should be a compromise between the ideal and popular morality." -Seneca
June 5, 2025 at 10:11 AM
"One's life should be a compromise between the ideal and popular morality." -Seneca
The Ends of Four Big Inflations by Thomas J. Sargent
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June 1, 2025 at 10:51 PM
The Ends of Four Big Inflations by Thomas J. Sargent
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Macromolecular Proton Fraction (MPF) mapping
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Method :: Macromolecular Proton Fraction
Macromolecular Proton Fraction (MPF): Quantitative Myelin Mapping Technique for Neuroscience
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June 1, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Macromolecular Proton Fraction (MPF) mapping
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Immanence: the quality or state of being inherent, indwelling.
Imminence: Something ready to take place.
Eminence: a position of prominence or superiority.
Imminence: Something ready to take place.
Eminence: a position of prominence or superiority.
May 31, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Immanence: the quality or state of being inherent, indwelling.
Imminence: Something ready to take place.
Eminence: a position of prominence or superiority.
Imminence: Something ready to take place.
Eminence: a position of prominence or superiority.
Coalitional Instincts - We instinctively care more about being good members of a coalition than nearly anything else.
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Coalitional Instincts | Edge.org
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May 28, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Coalitional Instincts - We instinctively care more about being good members of a coalition than nearly anything else.
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"No one confines his unhappiness to the present." -Seneca
May 28, 2025 at 2:57 AM
"No one confines his unhappiness to the present." -Seneca
Beauty filters can train you to hate your natural face.
May 28, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Beauty filters can train you to hate your natural face.
Upgrade Your Life With Free Research-Backed Tools
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ClearerThinking.org
Clearer Thinking offers free, online training programs and tools to improve your decision making and sharpen your reasoning.
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May 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Upgrade Your Life With Free Research-Backed Tools
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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them...
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them...
May 26, 2025 at 3:17 PM
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them...
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them...
63 Principles
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Nabeel S. Qureshi
Personal writing and other things by Nabeel Qureshi.
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May 26, 2025 at 2:52 PM
63 Principles
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Space Exploration Logo Archive
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Space Exploration Logo Archive
Space Exploration Logo Archive
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May 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Space Exploration Logo Archive
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Preparing for the Intelligence Explosion
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Forethought
AI that can accelerate research could drive a century of technological progress over just a few years. During such a period, new technological or political developments will raise consequential and ha...
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May 26, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Preparing for the Intelligence Explosion
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Can we find civilizations in other galaxies by looking at potential dyson spheres?
Project Hephaistos – II. Dyson sphere candidates from Gaia DR3, 2MASS, and WISE
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Project Hephaistos – II. Dyson sphere candidates from Gaia DR3, 2MASS, and WISE
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Project Hephaistos – II. Dyson sphere candidates from Gaia DR3, 2MASS, and WISE
ABSTRACT. The search for extraterrestrial intelligence is currently being pursued using multiple techniques and in different wavelength bands. Dyson sphere
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May 26, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Can we find civilizations in other galaxies by looking at potential dyson spheres?
Project Hephaistos – II. Dyson sphere candidates from Gaia DR3, 2MASS, and WISE
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Project Hephaistos – II. Dyson sphere candidates from Gaia DR3, 2MASS, and WISE
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Tous les systèmes sont défectueux et ont besoin d’entretien.
January 19, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Tous les systèmes sont défectueux et ont besoin d’entretien.
if your trip is shorter than three miles you do not need a car ffs
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How extreme car dependency is driving Americans to unhappiness
A car is often essential in the US but while owning a vehicle is better than not for life satisfaction, a study has found, having to drive too much sends happiness plummeting
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January 1, 2025 at 5:46 PM
if your trip is shorter than three miles you do not need a car ffs
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Looking forward to “quantum computation means multiple universes are real” becoming the next millenarian techno-grift business singularity after “large language models mean AGI is just around the corner” dies down
Google says its new quantum chip may prove parallel universes exist
Google's Willow chip is reigniting discussions about the possibility of parallel universes.
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December 15, 2024 at 11:05 PM
Looking forward to “quantum computation means multiple universes are real” becoming the next millenarian techno-grift business singularity after “large language models mean AGI is just around the corner” dies down
photosynthesis need not be the only emergent biological synthesis of an elementary particle in the universe
December 8, 2024 at 4:51 PM
photosynthesis need not be the only emergent biological synthesis of an elementary particle in the universe
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but you don't need to justify your reading preferences and choices to anyone. Audiobooks count as reading. Also, you don't have to finish books you don't enjoy. Don't read to impress, read for yourself. Life's too short, love yourself, ok?
Signed, a librarian.
Signed, a librarian.
December 7, 2024 at 3:51 PM
I don't know who needs to hear this, but you don't need to justify your reading preferences and choices to anyone. Audiobooks count as reading. Also, you don't have to finish books you don't enjoy. Don't read to impress, read for yourself. Life's too short, love yourself, ok?
Signed, a librarian.
Signed, a librarian.
you want to sound smart, so you say things with conviction, but they're incomplete, no matter how certain you are of the truth; there are always missing pieces
December 2, 2024 at 5:19 PM
you want to sound smart, so you say things with conviction, but they're incomplete, no matter how certain you are of the truth; there are always missing pieces