Wanna hear me rumble about other things?
Entertainment
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Gaming: mostly real-time streategy games or (world war 2) first-person shooters
StarCraft (1&2) us, Northgard fr, Oxygen Not Included ca…
Half-Life (1&2+) us, MineCraft (b1.3+&modded) se…
Mindustry (Serpulo) ru, Kerbal Space Program mx…
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Movies: many old French movies (De Funes, Marielle, Ventura…) and more modern ones (mostly american)
The Matrix us, The Fifth Element us, The Big Lebowsky us, Fight Club us, V for Vendetta us, Old Boy ko…
Inside Out us, Encanto us…
Also Columbo us, Hercules Poirot uk, Kaamelott (123>456) fr…
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Music: mostly electronic and without vocals
Dance, House, Electro-Dark, Ambient…
otherwise Classic and load of random stuff.
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Books: mostly science-fiction (novels and shorts)
Peter F. Hamilton uk, Philip K. Dick us…
Alexandre Dumas fr…
Cosmology
If the universe is so big and so old then "where is everybody?" — asked Enrico Fermi.
Paradox: The discrepancy between the lack of conclusive evidence of advanced extraterrestrial life and the apparently high likelihood of its existence.
I'm convinced we'll never [b]reach Faster-Than-Light speed…
Biology
Mitochondria are the powerhouses of the cell.
Mitochondria are organelles are more than a billion years old, common to most eukaryotic cells, both vegetal and animal and has its own DNA.
So literally produces the universal currency of chemical energy (Adenosine TriPhosphate).
Play roles in cell cycle: growth, aging and death!
Science
While not perfect, the scientific method
(mainly its hypothetico-deductive model)
is the best method I know to determin what's most likely to be "true" while advocating skepticism
(from Descartes's cartesian doubt)
and eliminating as much bias as possible.
The action of thought is excited by the irritation of doubt, and ceases when belief is attained. — Charles Sanders Peirce
experience => hypothesis => prediction => experiment
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. — Albert Einstein
Opinions
Not often without an opinion, even if they can and do change.
Actually works both ways: I appreciate humans of values and with strong opinions, even if not aligned.
I like conciseness and honesty but dispise lies and people who don't keep their word.
I can be provocative and play devil's advocate but only to trigger an honest and sincere conversation without the fear of being judged.
Try to be aware of your cognitive bias
& sophist.
Worried of single-mindedness (anchoring biais & status quo bias).
Politics
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. — John Dalberg-Acton
I am genuinely interested on how society and law are shaped. But the majority of what I see from power is
ego, deceit, scapegoating (discrimination & oppresion), censorship & propaganda…
I wish we would find common grounds more easily on ideas and values by focusing less on party ideologies and individuals.
Maybe voting for someone is actually an issue.
By the way, our voting systems are broken:
Condorcet /
Borda
If media/information is the fourth power, money is definitely the fifth…
In fact, I believe no one can apprehend our world without understanding the way we handle wealth:
money creation through money printing and/or loans,
fractional reserve banking,
compound interest &
usury…
The 50/30/20% rule by Elizabeth Warren might personally help.
Crypto-currency
- Technically awesome: faith in math/code rather than people; with fixed supply.
- Philosophically fascinating: concensus through majority, never through a central entity.
- Unknown creator (behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto). Highly speculative value — beware.
Religion
Agnostic rather than atheist: I acknowledge a creation (of sort) and can recognize sacred in things, but fail to have faith in anything divine.
My viewpoint is: "maybe"; although I don't follow Pascal's wager since I cannot "fake" faith.
Fearful of any fan[aticism] — even more so if they suspend jugement / free-will.
