Amusing article--Keith Henson
http://slate.msn.com/id/2096491/entry/2096506/
How Will the Universe End?
A cosmic detective story about the demise of the world, in three parts.
By Jim Holt
...
What could our descendants possibly look like a trillion trillion trillion
years from now, when the
gods would probably be better.
I am not far from having the first draft of this article done. If any are
interested in reviewing the draft, send me a note.
Keith Henson
**
Evolutionary Psychology, Memes, The Origin of War, and Empowering Women
(Tentative title)
By H. Keith Henson
At 02:35 PM 08/03/04 -0600, you wrote:
Since I've been posting during the day, I'm sure most of you guessed
that I'm not at work today.
snip
It sound like you did inhale a tiny bit of reflux. That will certainly
cause what you experienced
ping half (or more) of the people in Iraq with US citizens just might
be insane enough to work.
All of this is going on way out of our environment of evolutionary
adaption--so take even the humor parts with a grain of salt.
Keith Henson
___
http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Cooperation urged on invasives
AIBS meeting participants say US Department of Homeland Security could
coordinate efforts | By Eugene Russo
WASHINGTON, DCPolicymakers are not doing nearly enough to curb the
negative ecological and economic consequences of invasive species,
biologists said
sni
expands.
More detail if anyone wants it.
Keith Henson
___
http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
er to kill all the opposition males and take the females on as
extra wives. That's no longer politically correct.
Keith Henson
___
http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
At 08:32 AM 30/03/04 -0500, you wrote:
At 06:55 PM 3/29/2004 -0500 Keith Henson wrote:
> Bush is considered to be (and
>might be) the worst president in US history.
By whom?
Google Results 1 - 10 of about 1,080 for "worst president in US history"
Bush. (0.22 seconds)
to be fair,
he US will see
massive public support for attacks that will kill millions, perhaps
hundreds of millions. Hunter gatherer tribes would sometimes kill everyone
in an attacking tribe though they usually just killed the males.
Will it go that
ased argument that humans have conditionally activated
psychological traits that (among other things) massively impair rational
thinking. This is because genes that turned off rational thinking in some
circumstances did better over the long haul.
If you can find a flaw in my reasoning on this
At 02:32 PM 02/04/04 -0800, you wrote:
> Keith Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I wrote one of the earliest popular articles on
> memes "MEMETICS AND THE MODULAR-MIND" in Analog
>(1987).
snip
I put the pointers up for historical context.
light. Even if they we
rs. This way of thinking about the brain, mind,
and behavior is changing how scientists approach old topics, and opening up
new ones."
Did the expansion below help?
You are welcome to ask questions, people on other lists have discussed this
till it became clear to them.
Keith Henson
>
of
direct selection for psychological traits that happened over appropriate
time scales. "Appropriate time scale" would be the time when our
ancestors were living at the ecological limit as hunter gatherers in small
tribes--upwards of a million years.
With me so far?
Keith Henson
___
http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
if you could tie it into the environment of evolutionary
adaption. I.e., when humans and their line lived as hunter gatherers.
Keith Henson
___
http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
At 05:01 PM 06/04/04 -0400, you wrote:
Keith Henson wrote that times of trouble tend to make for a spread in
xenophobic notions. He said that idea came from evolutionary
psychology.
Regarding evolutionary psychology, Gautam Mukunda wrote
My problem ... It struck me as a "just so&q
d the war fades out.
Talks about nasty disfunctional feedback loops!
Keith Henson
___
http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
At 02:31 PM 07/04/04 -0400, you wrote:
Keith Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
It's worst than that. The natives of Easter Island ... went at
each other with rocks ...
True, but that tells us nothing as to whether the capability of
developing `xenophobic memes' comes
At 08:43 AM 09/04/04 -02-30, you wrote:
From: Keith Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Meta Level was Winning the War on Terror
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 20:12:43 -0400
We know
At 03:14 PM 09/04/04 -0700, you wrote:
Keith Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
snip
I think an argument can be made that - in terms of
expansion of genes and memes - war _is_ adaptive when
one culture is technologically more advanced than the
other; the above is rather like the MAD sc
At 10:16 PM 12/04/04 +, you wrote:
--===1943412254==
(I just received your message of 7 April.)
Keith Henson wrote
The model of evolutionary psychology ... is that any observed
feature in a species is either the direct result of the feature
being selected or it is a
At 06:18 PM 22/04/04 -0700, you wrote:
Thanks for sending this.
My response is complex so please let me put it into
context.
snip
>... and so on. The latest, attacking Kerrey's war
>record, shows just how biliously crazy these people
>are.
>
>6) It is rooted, of course, in the us-vs-them
>attitu
rator. Above all,
thou shalt not be a bystander."
--Holocaust Museum
But the reality is that the number of people who be anything but bystanders
when they see vicious injustice being done is too small to have an effect
even on a relatively small (40-50k tops in the USA) cult like scientology.
Keith Henson
___
http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
#x27;s see. There are about 100 million people who pay taxes in the US.
So each 100 people's share would be $25,000, or $250 per taxpayer.
Keith Henson
___
http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
red" or not?
If your tribe gets attacked, it pay your genes to attack back, even to take
high risks of being killed while defending your tribe because the
alternative--being killed--is worse for your genes..
Evolutionary psychology is really a bleak science.
Keith Henson
PS. We need
At 10:26 PM 04/05/04 -0500, ulia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
snip
At the risk of drawing a lot of fire from all quarters:
It occurred to me that perhaps the thing to do is to identify all the
people who participated in the torture-for-amusement, and turn them over
to the Iraqi people.
Some
lites, back in the mid to late 70s.
Given the current power structure, I don't know what would be harder to put
over, female empowerment/reducing the birth rate or displacing oil as an
energy source.
Keith Henson
___
http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
lation of perhaps 20 people). They went at each other for generations
till the peak population of 20,000 was reduced to perhaps 1000, and the
ecosystem started to recover somewhat. Then, with enough to eat, "war
mode" switched off.
It is a dire and depressing business to realize that
cally rewarding. Such a
test might be used to sort out the women who really did fall down a flight
of stairs from the battered ones.
Keith Henson
PS. 40 years ago I was amused by a story told by the husband of a women
who was battered *once.* After her husband went to bed, she knocked him in
t
At 11:06 PM 21/05/04 -0500, you wrote:
- Original Message -
From: "Keith Henson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 9:22 PM
Subject: Re: The Savage Solution
> Now I can't see *any* logic f
ie, head of the Crusade, ordered that everyone, all Catholics
and Cathars, be killed, even his own men, since "God will know his own."
20,000 were killed."
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathar
Second, Bruderhof abuse in Google lists almost 3000 pages.
Keith Henson
_
mental space to make infection with a dangerous parasite
less likely. (This may be less true in today's memetic ecosystem than it
was in the past.)
Keith Henson
___
http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
At 11:09 PM 25/05/04 -0400, you wrote:
Keith Henson wrote:
snip
> The distinction between cults and religions is real and useful. Cults are
> outright parasites, religions are the same mental parasites that have
> co-evolved with their hosts long enough to become more useful tha
At 07:45 AM 26/05/04 -0400, David wrote:
Keith Henson wrote:
snip
> You might be right on this point, but there were a lot of dangerous cults
> about in the past. For example the children's crusades in 1212 resulted in
> a few tens of thousands dying.
So the claim would be t
At 09:38 PM 26/05/04 -0400, I wrote:
Try scientology discordians OTO masons mormons in Google.
Sorry, Google.groups.
Keith
___
http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
een part of the body of Christ when he was alive. Of course the same
number would have been part of Judas and every other person who lived at
the time.
Keith Henson
___
http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
ss" is a luxury that technologically advanced
peoples have developed largely because they have been without widespread
privation for a long time.
Comment David?
Keith Henson
___
http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
d into your fricking genes.
Keith Henson
___
http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
If you want to go further, David Buss's books starting
with "Evolution of Desire," Axelrod's "Evolution of Cooperation," and at
least one of William Calvin's books, "Ascent of Mind" being a bit dated but
very good. Round this out with some of Jane Goo
And if you're asking for volunteers for the firing squad, I can hit a dime
at 100 yards.
That should be just fine, after recalculating angular differences for
diameter relative to distance, for hitting a marketer's brain at 6 feet,
using a Howitzer.
My wife has a comment on this. Brainw
ons
of genes (traits) should be expected to fail.
Keith Henson
___
http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
ading to humans were no longer predated upon by the big
cats so we had to become our own predators.)
So if you don't want Houston to turn into a situation like the Sudan, keep
the population growth below the economic growth.
This involves empowering women and being sure they have the technolo
At 03:39 PM 06/09/04 -0500, you wrote:
- Original Message -
From: "Keith Henson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 3:06 PM
Subject: Re: KEP part 2 L3
> At 10:09 AM 06/09/04 -0500,
ary's house, but that's *nothing*
compared to being baptized by Satan!
Keith Henson
___
http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
just as exciting.
As Dr. Vinge says, it will make a spectacular movie. But if you know even
a little about science or engineering reading the book will irritate the
heck out of you.
Keith Henson
PS If you want an example of high adventure that does not violate physical
laws try _The Revoluti
Here's a thought:
Ghengiz Khan's genes appear in 8% of modern Chinese population - that's an
amazing new finding indicating how systematically and effectively he used
his harem. Probably more effectively than any other ruler.
I don't think it was the Chinese population. I think it was central
At 12:05 AM 14/09/04 -0400, you wrote:
Here's a thought:
Ghengiz Khan's genes appear in 8% of modern Chinese population - that's
an amazing new finding indicating how systematically and effectively he
used his harem. Probably more effectively than any other ruler.
I don't think it was the Chine
his email is [EMAIL PROTECTED] And please send me a blind cc. If
you want to spread this to other places/list, please do.
I was going to put this information on a web site, www.operatingthetan.com,
but the guy who runs that is awful busy at the moment.
Much appreciate your mentioning my plight
at happened in the States, no matter how gross.
Some of you know me in real life and many by my writing and reputation.
How you know me and how long is worth mentioning.
Much thanks,
Keith Henson
___
http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
iction.
There is nothing like functional MRI to gain "insight" into how minds
work. :-)
Keith Henson
___
http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
At 10:57 PM 20/10/04 -0700, Doug wrote:
They could, of course, salvage the whole lot by treating it with radiation.
Keith
Think the shortage of flu vaccine is just bad luck?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18795-2004Oct8.html
Britain: U.S. Told Of Vaccine Shortage
LONDON, Oct. 8 -- B
unting and raising kids
for the *next* cycle.
There is more of this depressing subject, but unless someone wants more I
will cut it off here.
Keith Henson
___
http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
At 08:26 PM 22/10/04 -0700, Nick wrote:
Keith Henson wrote:
I think that if you want to try to understand why humans do things you
have to look at how our psychological mechanisms were shaped in the EEA,
the environment of evolutionary adaption.
I have to? There's no other way? ;-) N
nt for the friendly AI project.
Keith Henson
___
http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
up in the last 30 years that's an
amazing statement.
Keith Henson
___
http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
into rock for explosives, not track
laying machines.
Keith Henson
___
http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
ve *never* seen this, but your might be right. It has been a really
long time since I was a kid.
Keith Henson
___
http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
At 01:11 PM 06/05/05 -0700, Warren Ockrassa wrote:
On May 6, 2005, at 6:39 AM, Keith Henson wrote:
At 02:52 AM 06/05/05 -0700, Warren Ockrassa wrote:
snip
This reminds me of the Ballad of John Henry. You might or might not know
it; the story is that John Henry, who worked on railroads in the
At 09:35 PM 06/05/05 -0400, Maru wrote:
On 5/6/05, Keith Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 11:50 AM 06/05/05 -0400, Maru wrote:
>
snip
> Can you go on Google and point out a few places where John Henry is up
> against a "track laying machine" or driving spikes t
See if this fixes the return address.
-
___
http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
I have not been posting here much for a while, sorry to drop this out of
the blue on the list
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2006/4/17/194059/296
but it is about topics that have been discussed here recently.
Best wishes,
Keith Henson
___
http
At 12:00 PM 4/25/2006 -0700, you wrote:
> On Behalf Of Keith Henson
>
> I have not been posting here much for a while...
How goes the war against the Cult?
Better since Tom Cruise "jumped the couch" and South Park took them on.
They seem to be doing a fair job of self
Newcastle University
authorities following complaints from vegetarians.
Nikolas Lloyd, who was granted IT services as a visiting fellow in
evolutionary psychology, has had all his pages taken down and his email
access rescinded.
***
The guy is very funny.
Ke
A friend sent me this, but I am sure she got if from somewhere else.
Keith Henson
I was in Walmart buying a large bag of Purina for Lola and was in line
to check out. A woman behind me asked if I had a dog Duh!
I was feeling a bit crabby so on impulse, I told her no, I was starting
The
rst place. The article goes onto mention that pretty much
>everything Iran was offering is what we are "demanding" now. Sheesh.
>
>Are these guys completely incompetent or are they going out of their way
>to make sure the Middle East is f*cked up for years and years to come???
It&
I know I should just give you a URL for this, but I don't have a place at
the moment to hang a half megabyte presentation (the data bulk is in the
pictures, it's only 17 slides). It was given Feb 28 at an ESA conference.
If anyone wants a copy and has enough space in their mailbox, let me know.
It's now up.
http://eugen.leitl.org/A-2000-tonne-per-day-Space-Elevator1.ppt
___
http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Some of you follow my adventures with the clam cult. This is the latests.
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.scientology/msg/d2ef82e36c8140e2?hl=en&;
And this is what else I do.
http://eugen.leitl.org/A-2000-tonne-per-day-Space-Elevator1.ppt
Keith
___
-day-Space-Elevator1.ppt
Free viewer for power point if you don't have one:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=428D5727-43AB-4F24-90B7-A94784AF71A4
If you are interested, ask questions.
Keith Henson
___
--that could
sustain world wide "industrialization."
The problem is to get there before there is a disaster or three.
I can go into detail if you like.
Keith Henson
___
http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
At 12:00 PM 4/24/2007 -0700, Leonard Matusik wrote:
snip
>Right Sport! I really enjoyed "Small is Beautifull"
>by ef Schumacher, myself
Ah, no. This involves structures far larger than anything human have yet
built.
Google "2000 tonnes" "space elevator&q
ople dying.
The long term alternatives to abundant energy are fairly well understood,
but there is little public push for them.
Keith Henson
___
http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
possible dates.
Keith Henson
___
http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
It makes no difference in what we need to do no matter what you think
about global warming.
The global models indicate that energy shortage will kill far more
people much sooner than global warming can be a significant factor.
However, if you solve the energy problem on a global scale, fixing
glo
This is very late draft full of graphs taken off the physics spread
sheet models if anyone wants a copy to review.
It lays out in detail how to get SBSP down to 2 cents per kWh or less
and how to get the project started to self sustaining stage a modest
number of tens of billions.
If you have an
Most of you have probably seen this, but better an extra copy than
none at all. Keith
http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/23695/
==
November/December 2009
Intelligence Explained
Tracking and understanding the complex connections within the b
Go there and look.
Keith
___
http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
I haven't had time to read Brin-l for a while.
Condolences to Nick Arenett.
Good ideas by Woozle, I read both pages.
One of these years the last person will die (involuntarily) and the
world will be a different place.
While looking for web links for another mailing list (to go with an
announcem
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Trent Shipley wrote:
snip
> If you want to solve global warming it better not cost me my job,
> increase my electricity bill, make me pay more for transportation,
> sacrifice the quality or quantity of my transportation, or otherwise
> degrade my lifestyle.
>
>
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Charlie Bell wrote:
> On 13/02/2010, at 7:05 AM, Keith Henson wrote:
>>
>> I could go into detail including the economic models, but I don't know
>> if there is anyone on this list who can follow the physics, chemistry
>> and
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro
wrote:
> Keith Henson wrote:
>>
>> I could go into detail including the economic models, but I don't know
>> if there is anyone on this list who can follow the physics, chemistry
>> and math
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Charlie Bell wrote:
>
>
> On 18/02/2010, at 11:29 AM, Keith Henson wrote:
snip
>>> You'd be surprised. My maths isn't great (ie i'm not a natural
>>> mathematician), but my chemistry is fine...
>>
>> The
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Keith Henson wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro
> wrote:
>
>> Keith Henson wrote:
>>>
>>> I could go into detail including the economic models, but I don't know
>>> if
I am appalled (though not surprised) that people on this list who
"don't have any answers" suggest "it might just require the end of
wasteful materialism" and joke about soylent green.
Energy hungry synthetic nitrogen is the reason for something between
1/3 and 1/2 of crop yield. The ending of fa
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Michael Harney
wrote:
>
> Keith Henson wrote:
>> I am appalled (though not surprised) that people on this list who
>> "don't have any answers" suggest "it might just require the end of
>> wasteful materialism" and
Unanswered, unasked even, is why people want stuff?
The answer requires evolutionary psychology and the history of what
selection pressures our ancestors were under.
If anyone can't construct the story of why we want stuff and would
like to hear it, let me know.
Keith H
This list may have somewhat of the same kind of problem science
fiction does in general.
The problem is runaway technology.
Think of how long painting and story telling lasted.
Movies are still using film, but that's rapidly coming to an end
VHS tape is about gone after decades.
DVD replaced t
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:00 AM, "Dan Minette" wrote:
> Earlier I had reported that the events in the Gulf were unprecedented, a
> "black swan". Since then, folks in the oil patch are still incredulous, but
> are increasingly upset with BP breaking the rules of the game.
snip (excellent mater
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:00 AM, "Dan Minette" wrote:
(keith)
>>US usage is around 20 M bbl/day, world production around 80 M bbl/day.
>>If this thing gets loose in the sea, BPs disaster would seem like
>>nothing. Better to hope it can't be done.
>
> I raised that question with Gautam, who is
On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 11:00 AM, "Dan Minette" wrote:
> -Original Message-
> From: brin-l-boun...@mccmedia.com [mailto:brin-l-boun...@mccmedia.com] On
> Behalf Of Keith Henson
> Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 3:09 PM
Wonder where this hung out for over two weeks b
On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 11:00 AM, "Dan Minette" wrote:
[Dan]
>>In fact, the candidates that now exist require a rare supplement that
>>isn't found in ocean water. ?It won't be costly to supply it, but they
>>don't grow without it. ?It's kinda like worrying that corn will displace
>>the woodlands
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 5:00 AM, Bruce Bostwick
wrote:
> On Jul 26, 2010, at 11:58 AM, zwil...@zwilnik.com wrote:
snip
>> Don't overlook what is called "dog whistle" political statements.
>> This names comes from the well-known phenomenon that a highly-
>> pitched whistle will be heard by dogs
http://www.slideshare.net/chris8649/stratosolar-overview
http://www.zinzzu.com/stratosolar.html
If this works as advertised, there will be no economic reason to build SBSP.
Keith
___
http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
cs and economics analysis
and seems to deserve serious further study.
Keith Henson
___
http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 11:00 AM, "Dan Minette" wrote:
> To: "'Killer Bs \(David Brin et al\) Discussion'"
>
> Just a quick point.
>
>>Run 80,000 hours in ten years the return is $800 per kW
>>per penny payment for a kWh. For power satellites, assuming 5kg/kW,
>>$100 per kg lifted to GEO and abo
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:00 AM, David Hobby wrote:
> Hi. Thanks for the details. I started thinking about
> the problem.
>
>> It depends on the acceptance angle and the diameter of the light pipe.
>
> I'll give you that the spread for light come out of the
> whole array and into the pipe is
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:01 AM, John Williams
wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Nick Arnett wrote:
>> It was not an easy decision to seek a loan modification. But the
>> ethics of it are not as black-and-white as you say.
>
> It absolutely is that simple. A honest, responsible pers
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:00 AM, "Dan Minette" wrote:
snip
> Third, to get out of this, the US needs a positive black swan to change all
> the rules again. This will soak up investment capitol, with a real return
> on investment, because wealth will be created. Until it comes, we're
> treadi
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 11:00 AM, "Dan Minette" wrote:
snip
> This is not a "black swan" type of new technology that comes out of nowhere,
> where costs come down a factor of two every year or two, etc. Its old
> technology, long promised as just around the corner. It will be very good
> at pr
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 11:00 AM, wrote:
snip
> I looked at the articles you provided, and I noted, without surprise, that
> they omitted a very key detail: laser efficiency. In typical everyday
> usage, lasers are not very efficient. Even in high tech uses, such as
> inertia fusion, particle
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Michael Harney
wrote:
snip
> Or, an idea may have
> negative survival value for the individual, but positive value for the
> group. ex: the Aztecs would sacrifice people to the gods during times of
> famine to try and appease the gods to end the famine.
I thi
1 - 100 of 158 matches
Mail list logo
