How will we meet aliens?
In hundreds of books, games and movies, there are alien species. Sometimes, they are bloodthirsty monsters. Sometimes, they are nice allies who fall victim to our prejudice. Sometimes, they are… Read more »
Category Archives: Evolution
Optimal Earth temperature
I’m sure by now you have at least heard of Global Warming. Many people disagree exactly on what is global warming, or climate change. But most people agree that it… Read more »
Hypocrite Atheists
Disclaimer: I am an Atheist, and I am most likely an hypocrite too. A long long time ago, humans showed up. Well, according to science, we didn’t really show… Read more »
Investing your money
All the actions in your life can be reduced to expectations of pleasure and expectations of pain. Depending on where you stand on the selfish to selfless scale, you might… Read more »
How long would you want to live?
Sort-of inspired by this Wait But Why Dinner Table post I read several months ago and couldn’t stop thinking about since. In the original post, there is actually a risk… Read more »
A carefully crafted selection of slightly longer random useless thoughts
If , get some slightly shorter thoughts here: A carefully crafted selection of random useless thoughts How can anyone deny evolution? It’s literally just the idea that when members… Read more »
Who would you nominate to be God?
In the comments of this post, I mentioned once knowing a guy who believed that there is no god right now, but someday there will be, and he’d definitely try… Read more »
Turning into cyborgs
Don’t mind me, I’m just trying to get the jump on Wait But Why. So… Elon Musk announced his new company, called Neuralink. We don’t know precisely what their product… Read more »
The dangers of cognitive biases
Lots of science fiction books, games and movies paint artificial intelligence as a danger. The most well-known of them is perhaps Terminator. First of all, let’s start with a little… Read more »
Babies are useless
Today, I’m trying out something different. I’ll tackle this post from a scientific point of view, instead of a philosophical one. I’ll try to explain something, in the hopes that… Read more »