Juan Orbea

But of course, engaging in this kind of synthesis requires transgressing against what would otherwise be the purism of disciplinary boundaries, and that's why I've come to appreciate an impure approach to both psychology and philosophy. It's because an impure approach, the kind that strategically flouts disciplinary boundaries, seems to reflect how... See more

How can smart, ambitious people stay working in an area where they have no long term ambitions? I think a good analogy for the mistake they are making can be found in computer science.

Next generation smrs use a new kind of fuel called TRISO fuel that's much more efficient. T he US department of energy has called trisol fuel "the most robust nuclear fuel on earth". picture a sphere, about the size of a hand, inside there are thousands of tiny triso particles that harness the power of fission better than conventional uranium... See more

Additionally, the heat engines that fission power plants use to convert fission energy into electricity (i.e., heat produces steam which turns a turbine) are incredibly inefficient. Another challenge for nuclear fission is optics and government backing. Demand for nuclear power has been heavily impacted by nuclear accidents. Today, nuclear power... See more

A more controversial application than this scanning-the-brain-to-understand-it scenario is scanning-the-brain-to-download-it. When an entire network of neurons receives input (from the outside world or from other networks of neurons), the signaling amongst them appears at first to be frenzied and random. So the question addressed by the San Diego... See more

But I regard the freeing of the human mind from its severe physical limitations of scope and duration as the necessary next step in evolution. In making this statement, it is important to emphasize that terms like evolution, destiny, and spiritual quest are observations about the end result, not the basis for these predictions. The primary force... See more

A good example of the latter type of decentralization is Bitcoin. Other than the consensus protocol itself, there are no formal governance rules existing among mining nodes, non-mining nodes, users, exchanges and core developers, but these groups all have different kinds of influence over Bitcoin and essentially govern Bitcoin on an emergent basis... See more