Yes, the term now is UAP, unidentified aerial phenomenon. There is an official UAP Task Force in the Pentagon. Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid uses it, Hilary Clinton uses it.
> If you don’t touch code, it doesn’t intrinsically degrade.
This is one misunderstanding of code quality which takes an absolute approach to measuring code health. Code health is relative to the changing requirements of it’s use. If you suddenly add a requirement that doesn’t fit existing design assumptions, the code hasn’t changed but the relative to the ideal has deviated...without touching the code.
>>> If you don’t touch code, it doesn’t intrinsically degrade.
That premise is factually wrong, code degrades over time because everything the code interfaces with is shifting over time (OS, compiler, interpreter, dependencies, etc...).
I would be thrilled to hear somebody's theory of consciousness that takes into account the following axioms:
1. Consciousness demonstrates quantum non-locality. The U.S government via 3 letter agencies studied psychic phenomena like remote viewing for over 30 years under various names including Project Stargate(a). and was studied at Stanford Research Institute by scientists like Russell Targ and Hal Puthoff.
2. Consciousness affects matter. The water crystal experiments by Masaru Emoto(b) are the simplest and least fringe example. Project love, hate, anger, etc. to water results in changes to the crystal structure of water when frozen.
I tried to keep it as non-fringey and simple as possible. If you consider these, it leads to the framework that consciousness is not emergent from the physical brain but is instead a field or carrier-wave from somewhere else and brains act like antenna receivers.
"Commentators have criticized Emoto for insufficient experimental controls and for not sharing enough details of his approach with the scientific community.[9][17] In addition, Emoto has been criticized for designing his experiments in ways that leave them prone to manipulation or human error influencing the findings.[9][18] Biochemist and Director of Microscopy at University College Cork William Reville wrote, "It is very unlikely that there is any reality behind Emoto's claims."[9] Reville noted the lack of scientific publication and pointed out that anyone who could demonstrate such a phenomenon would become immediately famous and probably wealthy.[9]"
Those two axioms would make a fantastic sci-fi novel.
The second one isn't that interesting to me philosophically, but your first questions gives rise to so many questions about human nature, free will, etc. Also, it would give credence to the theory that we are just one giant super consciousness. it'd also have the added affect of making the concept of war super brutal.
This is incredible, I definitely believe it's possible with psychedelics. I've stuttered all my life and have accepted it as part of my life, but I think I'm going to try it. Definitely not taking an ounce at one time though!
LSD and Mushrooms. They work wonders, I'd start with microdoses, though a good plateau trip works for years after.
Microdoses and an introduction to the culture of these chems, there's ever more material of these online, then, 15 years ago when I first experimented and that's both exciting and sad because if you were to rely solely on social media/reddit/twitter ancedotes you really won't get the full package.
I'd look at forums, erowid and published research journals for the full picture. :)
The book Radical Markets has very innovative ideas in combating inequality using market strategies.
We are deluded if we don’t acknowledge Inequality is one of the biggest challenges facing us that we have to solve.
I guess this a nature fallacy? Civilization is built by humans. I don't see why human behavior could not change how civilization works. Freedom of speech is an important evolution that goes against human nature. I don't see why human instincts of domination would always prevail.
Also welfare already exists in many countries including the US, so it's an accepted thing. It needs to be accepted without shame or arguments that it's a socialist measure.
even if you have very very generous welfare (and I agree that this should exist) - it would not ever fix the inequality of outcome.
I just don't see how those who can perform literally 10x more productively than others will settle for less than an absolute top prize, and with technology being such a great amplifier - winner take all dynamics seems to be so inherent - I am not even sure what can be done?
The issue is that civilizations have also been destroyed by humans.
Its not all humans but a minority of greedy sociopathic humans make it difficult to impossible to do anything meaningful towards societal advancement and tend to ruin any sort of collectively equal society.
I hope I'm wrong but that has been my observations so far at micro to macro levels.
Some commenters have asked what kind of business would deploy this kind of technique.
I’ve done it. For MLS syncing software, there are lots of properties, not thousands but can be hundreds. And each MLS RETS has its own Schema, so for any kind of logic portability this is necessary.
Actually, storing the raw data as a blob is a flexibility technique and is a separate concern than the number of fields. As I can’t predict the future set of optimized queries I’ll need, and I don’t want to constantly sync and resync (some MLS will rate limit you), then this way I can store the raw data once, and parse plus update my tables/indexes very quickly.
