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One can think that progressive state-of-art civilizations presumably self-destroy. This kind of goes hand in hand with the Fermi paradox. AI can really go rogue on us, the nanoplagues and you cannot rule a nuclear war out of the equation.
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In 1969 Apollo 11, the spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon, used these 30 lines of code to calculate transcendental functions like sine and cosine essential for navigation. This code was submitted by Margaret H. Hamilton (Programming Leader Apollo Guidance and Navigation) in March 1969 and was used to evaluate trigonometric functions essential for navigation on both the Command Module and Lunar Lander that first landed humans on the Moon. Check the code annotated code here.
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The Workman Keyboard Layout Philosophy
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Why Our Intuition About Sea-Level Rise Is Wrong. A geologist explains that climate change is not just about a global average sea rise.
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Nukemap
The NUKEMAP is aimed at helping people visualize nuclear weapons on terms they can make sense of — helping them to get a sense of the scale of the bombs. By allowing people to use arbitrarily picked geographical locations, I hope that people will come to understand what a nuclear weapon would do to places they are familiar with, and how the different sizes of nuclear weapons change the results. This is intended as an educational resource. It should not be used for emergency planning or emergency response purposes where lives and health might be on the line. It is not a perfect simulation.
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Things to think about
Your own ideas mostly seem trivial to you because you have the right concept structures in place to support them. You wouldn't come up with these ideas otherwise. So it's easier to notice your own ideas in a dialogue: your friend has different concept structures and notices them.
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