About this user
What do you believe, and how much are you willing to risk on that belief? Would you risk your existence, or the existence of your family, on a hunch? A whim? The supposed word of a prophet a thousand years dead? Survival is about managing risk. The more you know about the universe and the more you know about your own capabilities, the better you can calculate the risk. Knowledge is the key. Knowledge can be obtained through a process of investigation, observation, the gathering of empirical data, reason, hypothesis and the testing of hypothesis. Anything else is a guess. You might be very good at guessing or believe your guess with all your heart- but one wrong guess, at any time, can spell your doom. Was it prophets and mystics who gave us electricity, antibiotics, modern sanitation, aerospace science, and digital timepieces? No. It was those who proceeded rationally, building on the work of others to create new wonders. That is why we must proceed only from what we know, and why we must constantly test what we believe to be true. We must be rigorous with the truth, and ruthless. The universe is no place for amateurs. Learn all you can, abolish your prejudices, and then act.
Interests
History, science, philosophy, transhumanism
