Friday, February 15, 2013

Anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die

A great quotation attributed by some to Buddha. Probably best to say unknown author.

8 comments:

The Keystone Garter said...

I just threw parmmiginons at someone who kept yelling my name at 3am, but didn't really know me. Do they like apples? I've got a rockin' arm. How do they like them apples!

The Keystone Garter said...

The window I mean.

The Keystone Garter said...

A novel phenomenom: upon entering the atmosphere, volatile pieces of the meteorite ignited and blew tiny concrete chunks into a decaying orbit, impacting Canada last night. Miraculously I guess, no windows were broken. But scientists wonder if this event is isolated....

The Keystone Garter said...

I think the Towers were hilighted because someone thought Al Qaeda would be the 1st bioterrorists. "They" couldn't figure out a non Pandora's Box solution so they bought time waiting for scholars to solve this. Iraq wasn't theft; was a dumb way of hitting a past enemy when politically able to. But this all still ultimately leads to a "Sphere" level of engineering competancy.
2 solutions fraught with perils:
1) outlaw most innovation with sensors/enforcement.
2) Use a growing brain engineering science base and brain sensors. Prolly 1st the sensors/enf and then use the slower to develop (safely) brain sciences while destroying the aforementioned terminator enforcement equipment used to 1st respond.
I suggest keeping progressive religions until longevity gains pass aging, and wirehaeding/glanding/mouse-electrode/healthy-codeine, for the masses until one of the two roads aren't statistically glitchy. A phrenology able to map thoughts (or at least emotional states) and a science of mental health; the brain engineering would be relatively safe. Sen/enf needs personnel (ie. VIPs) with optimal education, experiences and happy surroundings. Need at least one road before Judgment Day, but both at the same time might be unnecessarily risky.

The Keystone Garter said...

Zounds! The mystery and sheer terrifying beauty of the cosmos. A meteor fragment vitrified to a stein-shaped object. More meteorites today and tomatoes from a tornado at the same time! Scientists theorize golf-ball sized meteorites have been covered with a sticky polymer diffused from within their cores and aggregated an abasive substance prior to entering the atmosphere. It is anyone's guess where they will land. I'll cut out here: I'd love a pitcher's opinion on whether tarmigginons are the best baseball substitute. The are puck shaped, but heavy and solid...

The Keystone Garter said...

Odds of Judgment Day are a function of our tech level. More accurately, ability to hold leash. Unlikely events such as pandemics, atmospheric EMPs, chnage the dynamics of our control over (now not as) unlikely tech events. All an object really needs to be programmed with is 2020s or so object modelling software and physics engine, understand the "kill all humans" command. But the military is at least 45 years away from an (illegal) insect fleet....
humans gets bored yet still like intact memories, so even the best Q-of-L isn't many magnitudes better than now middle class. If know suffering isn't boring so Hell World's are worse than Heavens are good. But 2500AD Stalin world might not be intractable over millenia. Extinction *is* likely intractable for Earth. We'll want to solve the Drake Equation for evil conquerors and it might require some risky physics to figure what they are capable of. 1st contact highest odds here. Hopefully something like a scalp EEG sticker will suffice for the mentally healthy and we can keep most of our privacy. These kinds of solutions I think are why 9-11 was a Pearl Harbour. Some of the existential risks synche up such as AGW. As long as I have a few coffees I am stable.

The Keystone Garter said...

I can kill only so many of them with DEET and lasers. Then need EMPs...

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