Juan Orbea

These values are implemented in a very libertarian and tech-forward way, organizing not around land, history, ethnicity and country, but around the cloud and personal choice, but they are rightist values nonetheless. 

The spherical shape of triso fuel is designed so it contains the uranium in an impenetrable ceramic fuel element. I t can be stored long term right on site, taking up minimal space and it yields 5x the output of traditional fuel. 

This disappearance had many repercussions. If humans can be approximated as rational economic actors (and, ultimately, even Adam Smith and Karl Marx agree on this point), then those who seek glory in the name of God or country appear odd; but if such odd people are commonplace and capable of asserting themselves with explosive force, then the... See more

A classic problem in computer science is hill climbing. Imagine you are dropped at a random spot on a hilly terrain, where you can only see a few feet in each direction (assume it’s foggy or something). The goal is to get to the highest hill.

The reason for this is that this cluster of fields of knowledge is interdependent on each other (the brain level affects the behaviour level, the behaviour level affects the behaviour of other brains...), and no single discipline is sufficient to answer the questions posed in Cognitive Science

[3] is of course a more complicated moral question: whether you view paralysis and creep toward de-facto authoritarian global government as a bigger problem or someone inventing an evil technology that dooms us all as a bigger problem. 

This does not mean require some absolute "na na no one can catch me" ideal of sovereignty that is perhaps only truly accessible to the ~5 countries that have highly self-sufficient national economies and/or nuclear weapons.