Verifying Unique Identities for a Basic Income Cryptocurrency
This is an idea about how a basic income cryptocurrency can be implemented in a totally distributed way. Demonstrating identity via social media can be a method of verifying …
Good Research Requires Thinking Clearly
November 6, 2015
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Think clearly. Publish prolifically. Those two sentences are sort of tangents. So are the next four small paragraphs. I recently finished listening to Linchpin by Seth Godin. Intersting book. …
Civil Commitment Should Be Outlawed
February 27, 2015
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The city that I live in and many other cities in the United States have multiple hospitals that have locked psychiatric wards that effectively function as jails and prisons. …
Crazy and Insane
January 14, 2015
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For years if not decades, terms like “insane”, “crazy”, “lunatic” and so forth are commonly used in songs, movies, television and more. Insanity is ingrained in our culture. Terms …
Ethical Ways of Earning Money Through Psychology
December 13, 2014
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There are ethical ways of earning money through psychology. There are also unethical ways of earning money through psychology that are legal. It is currently legal for some psychological …
SENS and Suicide
November 24, 2014
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This is about SENS research and suicide. I will start by noting that I hope that all suicides stop happening. I also support SENS research. SENS is an acronym that …
How You Can Help to Defeat Aging
November 15, 2014
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There are many ways that you can help to defeat aging. Aging is the largest humanitarian crisis in existence, at least in the sense of the sheer number of humans …
Regulating and Influencing Emotions
October 26, 2014
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This is about regulating and influencing emotions. Many individuals naturally regulate their emotions in ways that are useful and sufficient. If you look at the news any day of …
Is Eliminating All Human Emotional Suffering Possible?
September 27, 2013
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Is eliminating all human emotional suffering possible? I think that that is an interesting question to ponder. There are proposals about how to potentially stop aging. Radical life extension technologies …
Creating a Life Worth Living Is Possible
September 8, 2013
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All humans should attempt to create a life worth living. It is possible to create a life worth living for one’s own self, it seems. No one should be …