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Crazy Wisdom


Mar 6, 2023

Pablo Peniche does front-end engineering, marketing, and design. Wears many hats at Viennahypertext

  • What do Mexicans think about Central Americans?
  • What is the relationship between urbit and vienna hypertext?
  • What is vienna hypertext?
    • An information network
    • Create different canvases with blocks
  • Why is vienna hypertext hard to build on urbit?
  • Does engineering advance science or does science advance engineering?
  • What is the relationship between science and engineering?
  • What is the difference between hard sciences and soft sciences?
  • How do you build a tool for the humanities? What effect will that have on engineering and science?
  • What is the anti-anti-anti-anti liberalism speech from Peter Theil?
  • What are the false idols of Scientism?
  • What is the relationship between millenarianism and scientism cults?
  • Why do human beings fall under homo religious rather than homo sapiens the thinking primate?
  • Lets do space travel! Why is Elon Musk right and why is he wrong?
  • Why should the pope declare a space crusade?
  • What is the kardashev scale?
    • type 1 is all the resources of one planet
    • type 2 is another the sun
    • type 3 is multiple stars
  • Why do atheists believe that collecting books is the way to western enlightenment?
  • How did Charlemagne invent the book with his codexes?
  • How are all historians revisionists?
  • If the news fake, imagine history?
  • Lets talk about climate change
    • What do the models measure?
      • Physics of fluids
      • Movements in the atmosphere and the oceans
      • Can’t get quality of soil or animals dying or matter outside of that
      • Topsoil captures carbon
    • Can you be pro-environment and pro-immigration at the same time in terms of top-soil?
  • Can you look at the global scale and actually change anything meaningful?
  • How do you deal with unknown unknowns?
  • Can computers ever discover what we don't know we don't know?
  • How is the stock market an example of the way things are getting done?
  • All models are incorrect but some are useful sometimes
  • Are humans due for another ice age?
  • Who is Freeman Dyson?
    • What is a dyson sphere?
    • What is the relationship between Feynmen and Freeman?
  • Why do you specifically have the ability to question heretical answers?
  • How is the internet the most powerful tool that humans have ever created?
  • How is contrarianism the secular antidote to the problem knowledge?
  • How did René Gerard decide that Christianity is the way to solve the problem of unknown unknowns and mimetic rivalry?
  • What did Gerard say about scapegoating?
  • How did Gerard meme himself into being Christian?
  • Why you shouldn’t fight on the minutiae of mimetic rivalry?
  • How do you measure carbon in the topsoil?
  • How can we build personal biological computers?
  • Who is John von Neumann?
    • How did he build a machine for war?
  • How did Liberia end up in such a different place from the US even though they have almost the same constitution?