Random Thoughts – Page 167

Money & Profit

Money & profit were catastrophic for previous intelligent civilizations. (Indian civilization destroyed by nuclear weapons).

It has to serve some noble purpose. Otherwise, life would be a very banal occurrence.

If you model your society after the Roman Empire, you should pay special attention to how it failed.

Jokić plays like water, always finding the path of least resistance.

Not everything should be easy. There’s no value in easy stuff.

If you think about it too much, you’re going to scare yourself out of a situation.

Death is overrated.

Religion offers hope, science just despair.

Science is just a feeble attempt to explain the unexplainable.

Size of genomes as an indicator for how long particular species have been around? Genes/DNA simply accumulate over time?