It's simple. You contact the company that manufactures the product and ask they use BPA. If they reply 'no' then fine. If they don't reply then, yes, they use BPA.
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2. Any neuroplasticity loss due to biological aging is itself accumulated damage which will have to be repaired as part of life extension.
3. Human evolution is now overwhelmingly the evolution not of genes but of ideas/culture/memes.
4. That's for an individual to decide. At the moment there are plenty of old people who can apparently think of no reason to live but they hide the fact. They are in effect waiting around to die. They eventually go to hospital and care home for a few years before death which entails a fair bit of suffering and costs a lot of money. This is a sad and somewhat cruel situation in my opinion.
5. I bet that the cheapest way to treat things like heart disease and cancer will turn out to be life extension technology (i.e. damage repair). So you may have to decide not to get treatment for things which are currently routinely treated by conventional means. Of course you might still fall down the stairs...
We could still be led astray because it would generate errors from time to time due to the fact that we are all fallible. And these errors would be harder to spot because we would be ignoring sources of countervailing ideas.
There is no substitute for reading critically. If we take responsibility and read critically we can learn things even from flaky or fake sources.
A note here: when it comes to discovery, motivation is vastly more important than competence and every disciplined effort will lead to greater understanding or a serendipitous result of some kind.
On the other hand, nobody can know the probability that he'll solve a problem.
Yet important problems can be reliably identified. What I'm trying to point out is that there's nothing wrong with going after the big ones.
>But I’m hopeful this log-jam will be temporary, and that new opportunities are opening up for aspiring scientists.
To put this in context he has also stated he thinks that civilisation has only a 50% chance of surviving this century. Another reason for tackling big problems IMO.
>most of the grand underlying principles have been firmly established and that further advances are to be sought chiefly in the rigorous application of these principles to all the phenomena which come under our notice. It is here that the science of measurement shows its importance — where quantitative work is more to be desired than qualitative work. An eminent physicist remarked that the future truths of physical science are to be looked for in the sixth place of decimals.
e.g. The fear elicited upon perceiving a particular person causes the conclusion that he is dangerous, not vice versa.
The multifarious causes of emotions are notoriously difficult to trace, and can indeed be somewhat noisy. Thus most people are effectively just rationalising when asked why they behaved as they did.
Btw, not advocating those behaviours nor trying to spot geniuses. Can't identify a genius except by his record of creative achievement (as judged by workers in his field).
I don't think a genius need necessarily be rude. It's really just of part of how he made it to maturity with his gifts intact. Once he is sufficiently shielded then he may relax and become a bit nicer, perhaps.
People in general are scared of being singled out for disapprobation by the group and so they self-censor and don't create new ideas in the first place.
I would also agree that economic growth and energy usage aren't inherently bad; these are only problematic at our current level of technology. And we're going to need a lot more of both in order to tackle future existential problems among other things.
However one aspect of well-being which isn't always included in these treatments is that of 'mental health' or the state of our 'souls' as it used to be thought of. Both concepts are vague but they do point to something real and profoundly important. So here's an unrhetorical question: are we getting better or worse in this respect, on average? Or is it simply impossible to measure at our present inadequate level of understanding?
Good point. It would make sense to send robots in advance to manufacture huge stockpiles of air and food. Which is of course beyond present technology.
>Also usually the payment details are saved after the first payment so the risk of making a mistake with the second payment is low. You would reuse the saved payee.
Exactly. A twist is my bank wipes the saved payees after a few months or so.
To engage the human mind (and the human heart) one needs something positive to aim for. That's why I think that the best approach is not to pick and choose among ideas and then make certain subjects compulsory (as in a curriculum). Rather find something that interests a child and then figure out how to do more of it. But this is best pursued outside the school system.
However, people don't prefer substances that cause more inflammation because they cause more inflammation, rather people prefer things that they find more pleasurable. This might include not having to switch restaurants and consuming things that are cheaper.
This is not inconsistent with the idea that chronic pleasure-seeking without respite causes chronic inflammation, e.g. if we indulge gluttonous impulses by eating sufficient amounts of chips fried in lard with mountains of blueberries for pudding then we're going to acquire the same problem.
>Self-stimulating activities and inflammation are orthogonal. Mechanical problems don't always cause accidents and accidents aren't always the result of mechanical problems.
I guess I'm claiming that they aren't. That car accidents aren't usually caused by mechanical faults was my point.
>smoking pot is anti-inflammatory
On the face of it this does look like a good counter-example. I might have to do some reading! It could be that cannabis relieves mental stress by a different route and this outweighs the effects of the 'high' (is there a high?)
>PS: are you a bear or ilk?
No, I'm not a joiner but I'm sympathetic to those guys. Discovered!
Let me add that I don't think that the inflammation problem is unsolvable. I'm a firm believer that everything good can ultimately be felt to be good, to the point where no discipline is required to purse it.
>lots of grains and refined foods
i.e. rather tasty! I don't think we can escape from motives here: they select what type of diet we prefer given the choice. The market caters to that.
https://twitter.com/DavidDeutschOxf/status/11746303659123261...
Thus, a single atom cannot be conscious. It could at a stretch be regarded as a miniature body, perhaps, but could it contain a memory system? Presumably not.