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“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for...
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“Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.” - Robert A. Heinlein (1952), The Rolling Stones
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“Democracy can’t work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that’s all there is — so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group.” - Robert A. Heinlein (1966), Glory Road Related: “Democracy is based on the assumption that a...
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“Age is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin.” - Robert A. Heinlein (1958), Methuselah’s Children
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“If you really want to know a man, observe how he treats a cat.” - Robert A. Heinlein (1957), The Door Into Summer
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Holy crap. How have I not heard of this before? Artificial intelligence: Ex-cyborg Kevin Warwick on mixing man and machine “The movie starts off with slides, but don’t worry, real video follows shortly. Make sure to catch Warwick describe the remote limb experiment (2:00), having his wife hooked up to his nerves (2:40), rodent brain cells in robots (~4:00), and how the human brain will...
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Wayne Brady X Mike Tyson
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Discoveries from my drafts, Vol. 1, Case 1: 2...
Originally drafted Jan 15, 2010: 2 Topics to Research in 2010 Or rather: ponder aimlessly 1. Appetite - While reading the majority of The Trickster Makes this World (which I must admit that I haven’t finished), our friend Mr. Hyde discusses appetite as the principal driver for the trickster as an archetype in fables across cultures and throughout history. All the mischievousness,...
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listening to "Townes Van Zandt - To Live Is To... →
Townes Van Zandt - loving me some country right now.
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