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The meaning of life
Lots of people worry about the meaning of life. I never really understood what that meant, the expression "meaning of life." On NYE I hung out with Alastair, and he described it as the reason that life exists, the why we're here. I'd heard that question before, but I'd not realised it might actually be the same thing as 'meaning of life ( Read more... ) -
Weight
Weighed myself over the weekend. My previous best-guess at my weight was 120kg, from 4 years ago ( Read more... ) -
The Incredible Hulk on conservation
MONICA RAPPACCINI: By our calculations, one century, maybe two.. and mutantkind will dominate to such a degree that humanity will go the way of the dodo.
HULK: So? World's done fine without the dodo. -
Israel/Palestine
What's your stance on the Israel/Palestine conflict, and why?
Are you pro-Israel? Pro-Palestine? Undecided? Don't care? Sick of hearing about it? -
Stability
I went to a talk at the Libertarian Alliance conference criticising the EU for "hyper-regulation" of our daily lives, with strong suggestions that we might well be better off leaving the EU and just operating open-border and open-market policies ourselves instead of doing it in the particular ways laid down by Brussels ( Read more... ) -
A quote
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason,
how infinite in faculties, in form and moving,
how express and admirable in action, how like an angel in apprehension,
how like a god!
- Hamlet, Act II, Scene II -
I'm in New York
Ees naiise?!
Got today, tomorrow, and most of Saturday to fill. I'm staying about 4 blocks from Times Square, so I walked up there today for lunch, and had a nice piece of salmon. I still feel a little strange going into restaurants for a full sit-down meal when it's just me on my own, but there's no reason why I should feel strange, so I'll keep ( Read more... ) -
Feynman on Ethics and Science
Feynman, "The Meaning of it All," part II:
And finally I would like to make a little philosophical argument - this I'm not very good at, but I would like to make a little philosophical argument to explain why theoretically I think that science and moral questions are independent. The common human problem, the big question, always is "Should I do ( Read more... ) -
Feynman on Peace
Feynman, "The Meaning of it All," part II:
Everybody dislikes war. Today our dream is that peace will be the solution. Without the expense of armaments, we can do whatever we want. And peace is a great force for good or for evil. How will it be for evil? I do not know. We will see, if we ever get peace.
The hawks have it, don't they ( Read more... ) -
The value of a life
Today - well, yesterday, now - was September 11th ( Read more... )