🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@Demosthenes im not sure that would help.. i mean sure dont get me wrong it might help stem the tide and fix some issues, for example stemming global warming. At best it will somewhat increase our carrying capacity as a species. But that carrying capacity will still be finite and our growth rate still exponential. So it might buy us a few years at best.

@2ck Thats not really an alternative is it?

"ET occupies a world in which EM radiation never developed"

Not sure what this means but as I see it it can mean one of two things...

1) ET takes places in a universe with different laws of physics that make it so EM is not useful for communication. In which case it wouldn't apply for our universe.

2) The species just never figures out how to use it as a useful form of communication. In which case they are terribly intelligent, at least not at our level yet.

As to your other point "low natural birth rate + lack of interspecies competition + strong cooperative biases" doesnt add up for me either.

1) low natural birth rate does not effect the evolutionary equation for selfishness. As we observe in species lower natural birthrate is coupled with a greater investment in resources per-child, and thus the main evolutionary drive to create species with lower birth rates than others. More resources per child results in greater chance per child of survivability. The overall need of resources for all of a mothers children per-unit-time remains the same in lower birth rate species more or less

2) lack of interspecies competition wouldnt matter either. The drive for selfishness is just as strong, if not more so, out of competition with ones own species. Remember the drive of evolution is **not** to propagate the species, it is to propagate ones own genes at the expense of everyone elses genes, including those in your own species. Therefore intraspecies competition would be as much a drive as interspecies competition. Which is inherent.

3) strong cooperative biases are moot to the argument as that is what the whole discussing is about in the first place so it dodges the question to assume a species could somehow have such biases. Generally evolution does not promote strong cooperative biases outside of a small group (a family or tribe) and does not appear as a quality between members of a whole species except where, as I stated, resources are extremely limited such that a species has reached the carrying capacity for its niche.

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@sergiopantalone Yay :)

@sergiopantalone morality doesn't arise from scarcity in terms of human behavior, but it does in terms of evolution.

Selfishness is not efficient, it gives the individual the best chances but will happily waste resources if it means the individual gets more, especially if it is other people's resources. There is no sense of the greater good.

Evolution on the other hand cares about the proliferation of the species (or rather the genes that embody that species) and as such when scarcity arises the evolutionary pressure would be towards resource efficiency over individual gain.

So in an environment with scarcity where evolution has had a long enough time to have its effect, a group morality would inherently arise.

@sergiopantalone oops thought you were talking about something else....

@sergiopantalone As a reply here or in the document itself?

So seems halve of you guys got this one right, 28% got it wrong, and 16% of you are smart asses.

You all did better than I'd have expected :)

Evolution always seeks to create a population such that its goal is the proliferation of that species in the short term (in evolutionary terms) with no regard for the future.

Moral conscience is only beneficial to a species when the species exists globally such that there are little or no free resources. Only then is the greater good more beneficial to the survival of the species than the individual or the good of the pack/tribe over another pack/tribe.

However on the flip side intellectual evolution is an advantage even in very sparse populations with plentiful resources. Greater intelligence means you can harvest and utilize those resources more quickly and put them to use growing your family or tribe as well as defending it.

As such due to the nature of evolution moral evolution is doomed to always lag considerably behind intelligent evolution. Furthermore since evolution is, in human life span terms, a very slow process, it isnt something that should be expected to catch up until many generations, and a lot of death has passed first. Due to the nature of intelligence to enable us to find more effective ways of killing ourselves this can inevitably lead to a species destroying itself long before its moral evolution has a chance to balance the equation.

It is this reason that many scientists speculate why we dont see very many radio signals in space indicating alien intelligent life, the theory goes that the very nature of evolution is such that life will almost inevitably destroy itself once it reaches the intellectual singularity before it has a chance to become interstellar and as such simply doesn't have a very long time span where it exists in a state where it gives off radio waves.

Sadly we dont appear as though we are going to be much different in that regard.

#science #evolution #seti #morality #ethics

Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman--a rope over an abyss. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end: what can be loved in man is that he is an overture and a going under...

I say unto you: one must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. I say unto you: you still have chaos in yourselves.

Alas, the time is coming when man will no longer give birth to a star. Alas, the time of the most despicable man is coming, he that is no longer able to despise himself. Behold, I show you the last man.

"What is love? What is creation? What is longing? What is a star?" thus asks the last man, and blinks.

The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race is as ineradicable as the flea; the last man lives longest.

"We have invented happiness," say the last men, and they blink. They have left the regions where it was hard to live, for one needs warmth. One still loves one's neighbor and rubs against him, for one needs warmth...

One still works, for work is a form of entertainment. But one is careful lest the entertainment be too harrowing. One no longer becomes poor or rich: both require too much exertion. Who still wants to rule? Who obey? Both require too much exertion.

No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.

"Formerly, all the world was mad," say the most refined, and they blink...

One has one's little pleasure for the day and one's little pleasure for the night: but one has a regard for health.

"We have invented happiness," say the last men, and they blink.

-- Thus spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche

#Nietzscche #poetry #poem #philosophy #quote #Quotes

Ok I think my article will be ready to be published tomorrow after I do one more re-read in the morning.

In the meantime I'd really appreciate anyone giving it a read and seeing if they find any errors please. I really could use some final eyes on this before I publish it live!

http://beta.jeffreyfreeman.me/an-indepth-look-at-duals-and-their-circuits/#the-voltage-current-dual-under-parallel-series-transformation

You can suggest edits direct on my repo or here, I will be happy to give a thank you link at the bottom to anyone who helps.

n the source for my blog:

https://git.qoto.org/freemo/freemo-site-beta/-/blob/master/source/articles/2020-09-22-an-indepth-look-at-duals-and-their-circuits.html.md

Its about mathematical duals and how they relate to electric circuits. I describe a rarely known type of circuit dual called a magnetic circuit that uses a magnetic field instead of an electric field to do all the things an electric circuit can do and explain magnetic inductors and capacitors. Its pretty cool stuff, I even touch on how you can extract energy from the magnetic field of a permanent magnet to power a magnetic circuit (or an electric circuit for that matter.

#Electronics #EE ##RF #HamRadio #AmateurRadio #Science #Physics #Math #Maths #mathematics

@arteteco If the change is sudden perhaps there is something more concerning at play?

@arteteco Oh no thats horrible! Sleep is sooo important. Hope that changes for ya soon.

@cos Thats normal, no one has a video quota until they get authorization from a moderator to ensure only QOTO users have accounts and to ensure no one steals a QOTO users username on peertube. Also to ensure new users know the rules and dont abuse the server.

Presuming you've read the rules I'd be happy to give you a quota just need to know your username.