If you cut the brake lines on your car, you can go infinitely fast. 

Isn’t the beginning of every sci-fi/horror movie when a seemingly good intentioned scientist disregards regulations, proper procedure, and general safety in favor of “progress”? Then cue to halfway through the movie and we get some deadly mutated pathogen instead of a miracle cure or have formed a black hole in the…

I cannot imagine why you’d think that.

“Libertarians are political idealists; they really like their theories about how the world works, but don’t feel particularly compelled to back up those theories with factual evidence (sort of like Communists)“

Wild thing to say, lmao. Communists developed dialectical materialism specifically to gather an analyze…

It reminds me of that equally daffy Singularity crap proto-techbros were going nuts over 10-15 years ago. Nothing new under the sun, etc.

That libertarians aren’t laughed out of the room wherever they go is a major failing on humanity’s part.

You know, Lucas, now would be an excellent time for an enterprising journalist to dig in to Marc’s past. He was an extremely problematic individual in ways which would have gotten him canceled today. This was the stuff of SV legend, everybody knew. Does he still do such things? Go chase the story.
BTW - you only have…

Have these tech-bro billionaires ever been right about anything?

It’s basically Prosperity Doctrine/Gospel, wrapped up in tech-bro buzzwords. Good People get rewarded with good lives. He has a good life, therefore he is a Good Person. Since he is a Good Person, any ideas that he has are good, especially those that support his continued success.

I’m not from the field, but from the article I assumed Neanderthals didn’t live in Anatolia and didn’t interbreed with the people there (although it’s implied that a small percentage of DNA made its way there through people who left Africa and returned after partying hard with the Eurasian Neanderthals).

And the hell of it is that we know that a huge swath of people just don’t care because everything is ‘fake news’ and there’s no such things as climate change. They’d rather obsess over gender, and identity, and things that are not their concern as the planet dies because they’re special and chosen for some magic…

Because the Anatolian Neanderthals had zero game.

I am pointing out this especially poignant fact to the author of this article: if you study history, as I have for most of my adult life (I’m 62), you know that the Western Roman Empire fell in 476 BCE (we don’t say AD anymore) with the deposition of Romulus Augustulus (the last Western Roman emperor). The Eastern…

So I’ve got a grey that I **think** is trying to play down climate change via poo-pooing my above post, but merely calls more attention to it.

I’ve got one - when a society can’t raise enough food, it’s in extreme danger. 

That cooperation is known as social capital. It is what gave the USA and other young nations the way to a strong nation. Sadly, in our time, social capital has been abandoned, maybe even discouraged, by the computers we sit in front of. And think of all those people wearing sunglasses, not for eye protection, but to…

Judean Date Palm?!

 Coelacanth are a Lazarus taxon, not species. The species “re-discovered” in 1938 was not the one scientists thought went extinct 75,000,000 years ago. It’s a different species. And it’s not the only coelacanth species left. There’s a second one found in the waters around Indonesia. Scientists had thought the entire…

The east African species of coelacanth is considered endangered apparently due to commercial fishing in that region accidentally catching them and putting pressure on their population. The separate coelacanth species found in Indonesia is apparently more populous & not technically considered endangered (but instead…

This is seriously outdated information on the coelacanth, Wikipedia was updated why didn’t the author check?