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These might be transported back to earth. Plus there's iron, cobalt, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, aluminium, and titanium for construction of moon settlements and factories.
Partly due to agricultural soil depletion of certain elements like magnesium, zinc, iodine.
Btw our prehistoric ancestors weren't especially healthy either:
So I take a magnesium tablet before bed. Less work to prepare and to digest.
The present moral aversion to supplements seems faddish to me. We've gone from one extreme in the 1960s where everyone looked forward to taking all food in pill form, like fictional astronauts, to another extreme where supplements of any kind are frowned upon by many including in the medical establishment. Some supplements don't absorb very well, it's true, and some consumers are irresponsible -- yet atoms are atoms and molecules are molecules regardless of the source.
No, I looked into it some years ago and it seems unfeasible. For instance you'd have to eat about 15 stalks/heads of broccoli daily to get the RDA of magnesium, and that amount is likely suboptimal.
I think we would still hear a a cacophony of moral objections. A spirit of pessimism seems to be hanging over us these days:
The bots might be a blessing, in some ways, if they result in more people looking for good explanations rather than for assertions or herd direction; assessing ideas rather than their sources.
By analogy consider the contemporaneous movie The Wizard of Oz (1939). It's enjoyable and arguably morally-improving to watch. We are the better for it. Yet a great deal of immorality existed behind the scenes:
https://www.ranker.com/list/wizard-of-oz-behind-the-scenes-s...
In reality our ideas about what we should be doing co-evolve with our feelings about doing those things.
Yes; if you like a philosophical idea that's usually sufficient for you to have 'adopted' or 'accepted' it. Yet, in addition, philosophical problems have been solved. It's just that ipso facto they then become part of science or some other discipline, so we don't notice so easily. For example, the theory of evolution was an example of philosophical progress (a new way of thinking about something, in this case life). But it's now part of biology. Another example is that Karl Popper solved the problem of induction. It's controversial that he did so. But if it shelves off into some other field, e.g. AGI, then perhaps his achievement will be more widely accepted as such.
Jayne: Well, I don't like the idea of someone hearin' what I'm thinkin'.
Inara Serra: No one likes the idea of hearing what you're thinking.
Yes. Precocious boys follow a sequence of obsessions. The way to foster achievement, then, is to find out what a child loves and help him to do more of it. Ultimately this may involve finding a master who can act as mentor. It's not going to happen in conformity factories dominated by ideologies (and often policed by bullies).
Yes, forced association causes bullying. There's no bureaucratic 'solution' that won't be gamed by the bullies. And there's no substitute for having good/brave people around the place.
In addition to the featured scrapyard cars one could peruse these vintage models:
https://www.classiccarpassion.com/media/101072/55.jpg
They still go because comprehensive maintenance and damage repair has been carried out -- repeatedly. The same approach is viable for the human body, argues de Grey.
In addition he might try and do nothing for a spell: I've found this to be impossible. One can then relax and watch oneself doing the truly essential tasks. Automatically. This is the 'ability to let that which does not matter truly slide' (Tyler Durden in Fight Club).
e.g. eating chilli causes pain, which is interpreted as pleasure
e.g. leaving everything to the last minute, which is interpretted as a 'buzz'
Even in such situations the pain remains a sign that something is wrong, that the personality may be out of balance. Why hurt yourself or make things harder? Like the dictator who deliberately creates hardship in order to remain in power...
As a passenger I find I can read in reasonable comfort if I can look up and out of the vehicle at each acceleration i.e. at turns, when stopping/starting.
What is the source? We don't understand (yet) but it's an interesting clue that the things other people like about you aren't necessarily the things you like about yourself.