Comment author: Azathoth123 21 November 2014 06:12:06AM *  0 points [-]

I had a discussion about this a female friend recently as to whether she'd considered female perceptions of beauty had become way out of whack since the Internet.

I think the main damage may actually come from female perception of male sexiness, (and conversely), e.g., a girl being disappointed in her boyfriend because he isn't Brad Pitt.

Edit: fixed.

Comment author: FiftyTwo 21 November 2014 08:33:29AM 0 points [-]

Wy is that the "main" damage? I'd agree mmale appearance standards have also changed, but generic western society values women on their appearance more than men so you'd expect the psychological impat to be larger.

xkcd on the AI box experiment

15 FiftyTwo 21 November 2014 08:26AM

Todays xkcd 

 

I guess there'll be a fair bit of traffic coming from people looking it up? 

Comment author: FiftyTwo 20 November 2014 11:40:20PM 1 point [-]

If I'm unsure what position I would be most suited for can I apply for several?

Comment author: FiftyTwo 18 November 2014 12:59:23AM 3 points [-]

This blog post on the ethics of teaching debating may be relevant, Uses the dark arts terminology a bit and talks about exploiting biases.

Comment author: [deleted] 17 November 2014 10:54:44PM 4 points [-]

What is a "neo-reactionary"?

Comment author: FiftyTwo 18 November 2014 12:10:24AM 15 points [-]
Comment author: polymathwannabe 04 November 2014 05:36:41PM 0 points [-]

How many stations are you considering a "fair number?"

Comment author: FiftyTwo 04 November 2014 06:20:02PM 0 points [-]

At least a dozen, with a few hundred people working spaceside full time

Comment author: MrMind 04 November 2014 08:11:52AM *  3 points [-]

Space factories for spaceship. It's much cheaper to build something heavy in space and have them launch from there. Of course you would have to mine asteroids instead of sending construction materials from the Earth.

Security concerns. If you want to test some form of nanotechnology, you better do that in space and nuclearize the whole thing (provided that nanotech is still extremely dangerous).

MIS (millionaires in space): once you live in outer space as a status signal, it's easier to befriend other rich weirdos in space.

Comment author: FiftyTwo 04 November 2014 02:52:04PM 4 points [-]

Space factories for spaceship.

You still need a strong economic reason for the spaceships if we're looking at a scarcity society with plausible tech. (Unless there's enough public and political will for exploration for its own sake which would rquire its own explanation)

Comment author: jaime2000 04 November 2014 03:57:40AM 4 points [-]

Space stations? As in, stations with humans in them? Pretty much none. Your best bet is to postulate some sort of alternate history in which electronics and computers never took off. Or you can go in the other direction, and postulate tiny space stations which house computing hardware running uploaded humans.

Comment author: FiftyTwo 04 November 2014 02:48:09PM 2 points [-]

Interesting site.

Human mainteance is still required for satellites, especially if geostationary is becoming even more crowded,

Comment author: drethelin 04 November 2014 05:16:48AM 2 points [-]

Extremely wealthy libertarian seperatists.

Comment author: FiftyTwo 04 November 2014 02:42:40PM 1 point [-]

Assuming there is still land available on earth it would be orders of magnitude cheaper to stay groundside.

Comment author: Lumifer 04 November 2014 05:28:07AM 6 points [-]

Highly valuable technological processes that only work in zero g.

Comment author: FiftyTwo 04 November 2014 02:41:51PM 2 points [-]

Such as?

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