Eric Rice retweeted
Space colonisation, like many new ideas, is unfairly dismissed by its detractors not for valid physics or engineering reasons, but because people who don’t understand physics and engineering dislike the vibes.
Read here: planetocracy.org/p/the-accus…
Eric Rice retweeted
The University of Nebraska has called out the misleading narrative on cow burps & methane on climate change:
“They have not accounted for the capture part, they only account for methane being released. Carbon capture in soil and grass - helped out by cow grazing and manure - can far outweigh the emissions from cattle. Grasslands can take up more CO2 and carbon in the soil and plants, that offsets the CO2 that cattle are producing but it also offsets the methane.”
Eric Rice retweeted
What the Netflix documentary needs you to believe a cow is:
- A methane factory with a vendetta
- Personally melting a glacier right now
- Sinking water like a frat lad
- Bulldozing the Amazon between mouthfuls
- Mugging children for their grain
- A coronary wrapped in leather
- A mastermind that can't open a gate
- Smug, and unforgivably so
What a cow is actually up to out there:
- Chewing grass you physically cannot
- Drinking rain, handing most straight back
- Farming a hillside no tractor survives
- Muck-spreading the field for free
- Breathing out last August's carbon
- Six months of food off one animal
- Leaving the soil richer than it found it
- Unaware it's been cast as the villain
The cow has been framed.
The bloke who made the documentary flew there to do it.
Eric Rice retweeted
The Battle of Ideas and Error-Correction
The society of the West is not the society that makes the right decisions all the time, it's the society that corrects errors.
There is no limit to the size of error that we can make.
The important thing is how good we are at correcting errors.
Many non-Western societies don't try to correct errors, they want to entrench them.
They don't recognize that there are going to errors in everything they do.
That is their weakness.
It is why we already have the tools to win the battle.
We've got what it takes.
~Conjecture Institute Advisor @DavidDeutschOxf with Advisor @peterboghossian & @ReidN
Eric Rice retweeted
.@DavidDeutschOxf: "Intellectuals (people who think for a living) are vulnerable to intellectual fads. This tendency is naturally harmless or beneficial, but becomes very dangerous when amplified by education systems striving for the compulsory standardisation of ideas.
Prevailing education systems are authority-based. Deference to authority is made the path to success; then it is deemed a virtue; finally, it passes for rationality."
Eric Rice retweeted
My conversation with @naval. Enjoy!
(0:00) - The Theory of Everything
(4:48) - How do you know what’s true?
(7:51) - Groups search for consensus, individuals search for truth
(13:07) - We have never run out of a single resource
(15:25) - Are we destroying the Earth?
(17:48) - Marxism denies wealth creation
(21:28) - Regulation kills innovation
(27:05) - Degrowth and the fall of Western universities
(33:31) - Why the West is best
(35:47) - Federalism
(38:10) - Everyone wants to live forever
(41:44) - Humans are universal explainers
(43:25) - Collectivism vs. individualism
(50:44) - You cannot explain the universe without explaining humans
(55:02) - How @DavidDeutschOxf’s ideas have changed Naval’s life
(1:02:31) - The scientific method isn’t possible
(1:05:07) - The low-hanging fruit theory is a bad explanation
(1:08:19) - The biggest threats to Western civilization
Eric Rice retweeted
The idea that "you can just, you know, hammer [disinformation] out of existence" is itself disinformation. But worse: it is bad philosophy. The foundation of all tyranny.
Eric Rice retweeted
Let’s relive liftoff of the final #DeltaIVHeavy rocket carrying #NROL70 for the @NatReconOfc, closing Delta’s six decade legacy of excellence in space!
#TheDeltaFinale
Eric Rice retweeted
ULA's Delta IV Heavy has launched for the final time.
Congrats @ulalaunch and @torybruno
Photo Credit: ULA (Not of the final launch)
Eric Rice retweeted
Sunday marks the 14th anniversary since the Citizens United decision. And ever since the Supreme Court issued that decision, its allowed money in politics to explode.
Now, it’s up to us to stop it: citizensforethics.org/report…
Eric Rice retweeted
A long awaited and expected conversation! @naval speaks with @DavidDeutschOxf (!!) nav.al/david-deutsch
People
Knowledge
Children
Explanations
Quantum Computers
And this is just the start!
Eric Rice retweeted
I wouldn’t ordinarily ask, but if those of you Liking the news of #ThePeripheral Season 2 were to also RT it, I’d appreciate it (however abashedly)!
Eric Rice retweeted
WHAT KILLED THE CRABS?
The official story is something like “a billion snow crabs disappeared.”
If that sounds fishy to you, keep reading. Let’s dive into the ecology, oceanography, & geopolitical history of the Bering Sea.
A science thread on crabs, corruption, & collapse: 🦀
ALT CBS EVENING NEWS > Alaska snow crab season canceled as officials investigate disappearance of an estimated 1 billion crabs
ALT News 1 billion crabs go missing, causing cancellation of Alaskan snow crab season
ALT Alaska Canceled Snow Crab Season for the First Time Ever Because All the Crabs Are Gone
ALT The Washington Post Alaska’s snow crabs have disappeared. Where they went is a mystery.
Eric Rice retweeted
Promised Russell I'd make this video get last day pro bowl votes
I'm very tired
#ProBowlVote
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Eric Rice retweeted
We are learning all too slowly the lessons of environmental deterioration. #LaudatoSi