How did they do zero gravity in Project Hail Mary? Did that guy really go to Tau Ceti?

Wires and short filming sessions rather than long livestreams

I guess that Anathem novel was prescient. We need academic monasteries where people go in and have no access to tech for a period of time. At least no LLMs/AI. They think with their heads and their chalkboard and their sand pits like the geometers of old.

It seems like demoralization propaganda.

It's not even April 1st yet. This is retarded. Humans won't be able to tell it's a human attesting em dash just by looking at it. And LLMs will just use it to trick people.

It's like a boss in a bullet hell game, shooting missiles in every direction.

> That is, of course, nonsense from an economics perspective.

No problem. Ketanji Brown Jackson is not an economist either!

My grandparents had my parents. My parents had me. I had my children. Hopefully they will have theirs.

Even if we can't remember, we know they were there. They succeeded in carrying on the species. We can wonder about them and what their lives were like.

"Lo, now, do I see my fathers and my fathers' fathers back to the beginning!"

"I go now to join my fathers, in whose mighty company I shall no longer feel ashamed."

If you’re happy to pay ~$380k per kid (not including daycare and college) over their 0-18 journey (£250k-£300k in the UK) and whatever it costs to help them survive in adulthood for the experience, help yourself. That’s certainly a choice. The future will not be as welcoming and prosperous as the past.

Only childless people will bring forward such a calculation of costs. And this shows that it‘s a great thing they remain childless.

Incest laws weren't given to Israel until Moses and the Exodus.

As for meaning:

Lot was date raped by his daughters. It shows the moral corruption of Sodom had affected his family.

It's also a historical and genealogical account of how the nations of Moab and Ammon began. Abraham's nephew Lot, and his daughters, though originally close family to Abraham, became the progenitors of nations that later oppressed the nation of Israel.

36 So both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father. 37 The older daughter had a son, and she named him Moab; he is the father of the Moabites of today. 38 The younger daughter also had a son, and she named him Ben-Ammi; he is the father of the Ammonites of today.

Whatever their age was, they were betrothed to be married to men who didn't evacuate when warned:

14 So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters. He said, “Hurry and get out of this place, because the Lord is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.