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  • Consciousness

  How the laws of physics could prevent AI from gaining sentience

  TNW - Tristan Greene

  A renowned theoretical computer science expert recently released an astonishing physics pre-print paper that tosses fuel on the fiery debate over… whether humans could use wormholes to traverse the universe...

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  • Space Science

  Transcript of "The history of our world in 18 minutes"

  ted.com - David Christian

  First, a video. Yes, it is a scrambled egg. But as you look at it, I hope you'll begin to feel just slightly uneasy. Because you may notice that …

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  From plant to paper cup: The economics of coffee in one chart

  weforum.org - Omri Wallach

  Breaking down the economics of coffee What goes into your morning cup of coffee, and what makes it possible? The obvious answer might be coffee beans, …

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  Will humans go extinct?

  Inverse - Nick Longrich

  The short answer is yes. Will our species go extinct? The short answer is yes. The fossil record shows everything goes extinct, eventually. Almost all …

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  The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake

  The Atlantic - David Brooks

  The family structure we’ve held up as the cultural ideal for the past half century has been a catastrophe for many. It’s time to figure out better ways to live together. The scene is one many of us have...

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  The Anthropocene Is a Joke

  The Atlantic - Peter Brannen

  On geological timescales, human civilization is an event, not an epoch. Humans are now living in a new geological epoch of our own making: the Anthropocene. Or so we’re told. Whereas some epochs in Earth...