Thought Provokers: 2/4/2026

At some point, good memories stop being comfort and start being contrast.

There is a good chance that the only thing stopping undersea cities from existing is the relatively short lifespan of octopuses.

Humans evolved a larynx optimized for speech, even though it makes choking more likely than in other mammals, because cooperation through language saved more lives than the anatomy cost.

With AI and AR becoming as good as they are and as fast as they are, we will eventually be unable to distinguish them from reality. At that point, psychiatrists are going to be working overtime, because nobody...