001543

User: “Is there any evidence that a modern person, say, from the US, has traveled to a location in less than the time necessary to do so by car, train, or passenger jet? I am thinking about, for example, underground maglevs that service underground bases in the...

001545

“I used to ‘sport my clothes’ … at all times in my 20’s and 30’s. I still do. But I’m a bit less emphatic about it, to the degree that I am not appearing before many others in a social setting. If I were to do that, I would...

001549

“Once a species achieves something resembling actual intelligence, they rather naturally concern themselves with a topic we may call ‘the preservation of the manifold’. This metatopic is at the basis of any possible motivation or desire, because, if...