dimreepr

“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.” ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe Assuming absolute zero means no movement, would that mean electrons stop orbiting the protons?

Now you've got me in a logic loop, if I can't +1 this and I can't +1 myself (assuming 1 of my reply, had some sort of influence, in the past), who can I +1, Zeno?

We just want to know stuff and we want to believe the stuff we know is correct; no time equals no history to learn from, just empty space...

Aren't we lucky??? We have the freedom to express an opinion... 😉 Make the most of it, while it's still fashionable.

He has no real concept of a freedom that lies outside of comfortable, banging one's head against a brick wall, is a fundamental freedom he can't understand. He's the sort that complains about his, perfectly acceptable holiday, bc the sheets had a slight stain; I paid for a perfect holiday and I only have two week's in which to enjoy it and that stain... grrrr...

There you go again, assuming that your "concept of freedom" differs from anyone else's. If you have to have specific condition's in order to achieve peace/freedom then your imposing prison on yourself.

Your being very arrogant, you seem to be denying all of us any chance of freedom. You need to imagine someone like Dr Hawkins, he is entirely dependent on other's for 'everything', right down to his voice; but he's freer than you ever could be, bc he accepts his prison/limits, he escapes in the only way he can, think about it... 😉

Thanks but no thanks. TBH I can't think of worse prison sentence 'life with no possibility of cheese'... 😉 Just a word to the wise-arse @raphaelh42 , we aren't born free from our family, turtles are but most of them die; a child has to obey the rules, an adult understands why... 😉

OK, I'll bite, what are the coordinates?

Indeed, at what point do the rules slide us into a dystopian society?

There's a reason the homeless congregate around cities...

I don't see how it wasn't intended to set our future goals; we should try to remove percieved dogma, from the most likely initial intention of the various religions, given so much cross-over in any Venn diagram. I think it's fair to say that contentment with now, in order to alleviate the fear of tomorrow, is definitely at every intersection I'm pretty sure there's nothing explicitly written that says, science and religion can't work together.

And even before we had money, we were exchanging human qualities (skills) and or commodities. Not to mention the biggest problem for the loner, all the good bits on the planet, already have humans on it.

Anarchy means less freedom, bc you always cede control to biggest bully's in the playground. Do your family have to live by your rules? Or is your children free to play with the cute looking tiger?

How can you possibly understand how a machine thinks, you may as well claim to be a dog's prophet; you have no idea how a dog's perception work's, given it's primary sense imput is probably smell. Assimov thought long and hard about the limits of AI under the 3 laws (our imposed limitation), IOW if we program the AI with the 3 laws in mind, then the more it anticipates the needs of people, the more it's going to lie to us.

I think perhaps we're talking past each other, in the context of this question, given the intention of the OP. "Setting our future goals, ethically, pragmatically; and acting in such a way that those goals are achieved, is a very different one." Indeed, it's a very religious aspiration, that has worked in the past; I'm not sure that science has the tool's.

To some extent it does, for instance, we all need to get to work on time, so we design the most effective way to achieve that aim. But my point in referring to BNW is that, would we even recognise it as dystopian.

That would depend on the "brave new world" we're aiming for...

Isn't 5 million enough?

So what makes you want to see tomorrow?

Are you being a typical Russian? 🙄

You have no idea, until you see the black dog prowl; I thought it would be easier, than waking up tomorrow, the only consideration in my attempt was pain, I dreamed of going to sleep, then nothing. It's no more a measure of courage, than it's a measure of cowardice, it's a measure of pain both physical and mental. Some of the lucky one's get a choice and fail, the unlucky one's don't get that choice. There is such a thing as hell on earth.

Surely that depends on which twin you ask...

your getting things all mixed up, entropy and radiation, both always happen but both for different reason's; for instance a microwave, at nearly 5 inches long isn''t very micro...

The same apps can be used to monitor children, for their own good, very nebulous in legal term's and liable to mission creep, even in a moderately strong right/left wing society. And it takes a very, very obvious corrupt miss-use for a government legislate against the insidious creep.