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This Week in Comments: September 4th—September 10th

Another week, another thrilling installment of our Comment of the Week feature with handpicked favorites from our Facebook page. 
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Another week, another thrilling installment of our Comment of the Week feature with handpicked favorites from our Facebook page. 


Climate Change Will Lead to the Largest Transfer of Wealth in the Country’s History

Jody Pace: The states with the most climate change deniers are the states that will be most affected. Toche mother nature…touche.

Would You Kill Baby Hitler?

Tyler JamesNope. I’d kidnap him and make sure he was raised by a family that would encourage him to finish Art School. 

Derick La PointeBaby Adolf did nothing wrong. It was middle-aged Adolf that started doing shit. So, I’d rather not kill a baby.

12 Reasons We Should All Be More Impractical in Life

Say Keng Lee: In fact, these two traits (reading and imagination) were part of Albert Einstein’s powerful habitual domain ever since the compass first fascinated him since he was a young teenager. To me, reading enriches the mind. Imagination stretches the mind.

Why Silicon Valley Titans Train Their Brains with Philosophy


David Chen: If you are really good at building machines that can do anything, at some point, you have to wonder what are all the possible things that the machine can do. Enter philosophy.

Elon Musk Warns U.S. Governors That AI Poses An “Existential Risk” to Humanity

Joyce Rasic Etter: There comes a point that humans will rely too much on technology. Rather than have machines thinking for us, we need to invest ourselves in critical thinking. Already, you see signs of people unable to problem solve the simple tasks in their lives. Invest in education.

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