So, basically, written Irish isn't so much a language, as, rather, a form of encryption somehow devised by the Irish to prohibit communication?

Phil Bolger was right: whomever devised such spellings, to "represent" Irish speech, deserves some quality-time in hell.

Yeeks.

Obviously, it depends on how one defines science:

IF science is defined partly by declaring that awareness isn't real, then it has already divorced reality.

Awareness produces effects, like cities, and couldn't do-so if it weren't real.

Awareness is immaterial, so physicalism prohibits/contempts it being real, but physicalism must also prohibit/contempt entanglement being real, because it isn't physical, either.

Etc.

IF one draws the lines so that ALL the phenomena in Universe that cause results get included, THEN yes, science can discover absolute truth about some aspects of Universe.

However, if one draws the lines so that ideology/prejudice decides what is real, then no, nothing can make that work right.

The most important understanding is in Hofstadter's "Godel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", where he hammers it into one, how self-consistent-formal-systems are mind-blind to ALL outside them.

That is a feature of the things, as Godel's Theorem of Incompleteness proved.

All who don't understand that ( & much/most of Western Philosophy rejects it, as "Slight of Mind" is one, of many many many, examples demonstrating ) simply aren't competent in the Philosophy they're believing they're doing.

( seriously: read GEB, then try reading Slight of Mind, which contradicts/ignores/denies GEB, & ask yourself which is truer: the math, or the ideology which rejects the math )

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That rocks:

Being able to set it at +4 ( historical evidence puts us WAAAAY above that, with our current CO2-levels, alone, even while ignoring methane ),

and change it to showing number-of-days-per-year-above-40C .. and Texas, California, Brazil, ALL of Saharan Africa, some southern Africa, the Middle East, India, most of Australia, etc, turn dark red.

Looks like a bloodbath, given how we the species "deal with" such pressures with bullets fired against the lives of "other" populations..

Very interesting resource, that.

Too bad they stop it at +4, instead of accepting the historical evidence putting it higher than that.

Here's the historical-facts paper which puts us above +5C right now, without including the methane 1.3ppm to 1.4ppm ( use an 82.5x multiplication-factor to convert methane to 20y CO2 equivalent )..

They're using a powerlaw:

• Evolution of global temperature over the past two million years

• https://www.nature.com/articles/nature19798

• 280ppm + ( 280 * 2^(1/9) ) == +1C

• 280ppm + ( 280 * 2^(2/9) ) == +2C

• and so-on: a doubling of CO2 produces +9C.

with the current added-methane, you get between +8C & +9C for current-atmosphere's composition, which makes stopping-at-+4C .. idiotic.

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The Android verrsion doesn't exist on Google Play.

It seems to have been removed.

AI could be beneficial for poorer nations, somebody warns.

AI could be harmful for poorer nations, somebody warns.

BOTH are true statements, and it comes down, entirely, to implementation ( & regulation of implementation ).

Corruption rules this world, however, and expecting anything other-than corruption, of money-driven-medicine ( there's a book named that, if someone wants to read up on such things ), is idiotic.

FLOSS medical diagnostic software may compete well, however, IF evidence-based-medicine is permitted to compete against authority-based-medicine.

( https://www.edge.org/response-detail/25433 is an article that got turned into a chapter of one of John Brockman's books, on authority-based medicine.

That book is named "This Idea Must Die", and some of the chapters in that book I agree with.

However, rather-than giving-up on evidence-based medicine, I'd rather dig-in & break authority-based medicine's gaslighting, eventually breaking authority-based medicine, itself, leaving only evidence-based medicine. : )

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The commenter who identified that we're now able to eliminate radiowave-broadcast communications, via lasers ( & fiberoptics, etc ), is spot-on.

There is another angle, though.

Imagine a simplified-model of civilization...

a batch of 7 newborn-babies, instead of hundreds of genetically-distinct populations in Africa...

those 7 babies live in "eden".

they learn that they can consume everything they want, that doesn't harm them.

they learn that they have to be somewhat self-moderating, because others fight them when one crowds the other, too much.

etc.

they move away from each-other, & some lose their skin-pigment, others change it...

an empire forms, in-which industry is the rule ( the Roman empire ).

Now a momentum is set in-place, that is making the sequence of the Industrial-Revolutions inevitable...

at the time of the Roman Empire, the children are, say, 11yo.

at the time of the Industrial Revolutions, they are in puberty, their brains forced into chaos, & ALL sorts of new force-multiplying technologies landing in their hands...

So, what is The Great Filter?

What happens when it is unconscious-toddler-mind, or unconscious-adolescent-who-never-got-challenged, who has all the world-snuffing technologies that we now have, but who has the global-responsiblity-level of .. drunk & drugged narcissistic children...

Say you have 7 kids going into The Great Filter, representing the whole populations-sea of our world...

Say only 1 of them survives The Great Filter...

Are they going to be CAREFUL in what they do, technologically, from then on??

Obviously.

I don't expect more than about 1.5% of this planet's population to survive this century's TANTRUM/POGROM that has narcissism-roots, politics-roots, religion-roots, food-insecurity-roots ( like total collapse of the terrestrial & marine food-webs, later this century ), etc.

Will the remnant who survive this century, if any do, be as careless with technology as we currently are??

How could they be?

If The Great Filter is an automatic force-growing-up consequence of EVERY world-overwhelming-species, who mixes accommodated-immaturity with ecosphere-destroying technology, then whatever portion of worlds who reach The Great Filter have survivors of it, .. it'd be inherent in the survivors' experience that they have been made careful.

Same as you don't find incapable-of-self-discipline in career-military-officers, you don't find our murderous carelessness/ideological-rabies in any survivor of The Great Filter:

Universe automatically force-extinguishes populations who won't grow up, who gain the technological-leverage that we've gained.

So, silence depicts a lack-of-carelessness AND an absence-of-need to be throwing-away-energy through radiowave broadcast, both.

When combined, galactic silence makes much fundamental sense.

We're in our species' "puberty" stage, and haven't survived our force-growing-up Great Filter, yet.

If we do, well, then finding others who also did, will make sense.

If we won't, .. then our epitaph will be that we wouldn't grow-up, at ANY cost.

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Good!

Now do the correlation between toxoplasmosis ( tiny amoeba who infest braincells ) infestation's stress & Alzheimer's.

ScientificallyTestablePrediction: I bet there is a statistically-significant correlation!

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"thousands of years ago" isn't the kind of resolution I was interested-in.

IF the genetic-drift-rate ( or whatever it's called ) of the critters is known,

THEN it should be possible to identify when they came here from Asia, through cladistics.

That may be another torpedo-hit in the "there is no evidence the Indigenous people were in the Americas significantly before the interglacial began" prejudice.

( there is already plenty of evidence that they were here, but when dealing with ideology-addiction/prejudice, you have to keep nailing the damn coffin closed, until the prejudice stays dead )

There are alternatives:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiknock_agent

MMT looks like it could be substituted, directly. Still nasty, but small usage, and removing lead & cadmium from our ecology should be high priority.

And, of course, replacing avgas engines with diesels would do it, as they can run on Jet-A or whatever.

This is all no-brainer territory.

The established aviation-engine manufacturers won't develop diesels,

& the upstarts keep going broke...

the LiquidPiston X-Engine is the brilliantest aviation engine I've ever considered, turning a Wankel rotary inside-out,

and the Astron Omega is .. insane ( I couldn't understand how the hell ANYBODY could even think of that ..

.. then I found out the inventor wasn't a piston-engines guy, he was a turbine-engines guy...

.. which explains it! )

I'd expect the IQ & life-potential of lives who grew-up near avgas-centric ( little ) airports to be damaged, consistently, by the lead.