<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 04:45:37 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/created/thoughtexperiment/rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[🧼🐬 The Telepathic Dolphin Deal]]></title><description><![CDATA[What if a dolphin offered to delete your browser history in exchange for reading your thoughts while you shower? Would you trust it? Or is that the price of freedom now?]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/dolphin/@realfake/ozpxqmzkxy</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/dolphin/@realfake/ozpxqmzkxy</guid><category><![CDATA[dolphin]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[realfake]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 14:33:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2r8F9rTBenJQoosNsVw9WJafvPxyXbJFMpTYNQtoHMdKFpVGAGW9g7mUbYvG7LnneuHf9SUSWUNzT3RZvFXfpnK9bLTKZQNKSuhSW9UvLeQeVLukB9iEwax3Y6Tafqimv?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[You open your eyes, its 2010]]></title><description><![CDATA[For some reason you can’t possibly comprehend, you’ve traveled back in time. But your memories—the last 15 years—are still intact, untouched, and as clear as can be. Not many people know about Bitcoin]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-125568/@meno/you-open-your-eyes-its</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-125568/@meno/you-open-your-eyes-its</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-125568]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[meno]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 01:29:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2gsjgna1uruvGBHDnRaj2z6FsL6XEQR3pnqa26GnWWgXnkwmG9RcYEcBJGHiA1mM8bshtkRx8Xbzew3gwoAVFv2xW6DNABvgJaa835EMDZDLAw6yEE?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[A (Tomato) Thought Experiment ]]></title><description><![CDATA[I often find myself in an uncanny position when I stand in a supermarket betwixt the abundance of food: How have we naturalized the idea that we can only buy food (from a supermarket)? People usually look]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/thoughtexperiment/@fermentedphil/a-tomato-thought-experiment</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/thoughtexperiment/@fermentedphil/a-tomato-thought-experiment</guid><category><![CDATA[thoughtexperiment]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[fermentedphil]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 29 May 2023 15:40:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/3RTd4iuWD6NUeJEn5AVrJUoyatFqBqfcCJi1N7UixR4g2KPKN7w8NpZJjsWDRvekVDta6JZQ45DM9xfnK5JjcWmVStoWUsSrfkqzh4Y1uNTP9yVVsiVZ79u2abvFpEADRsCdfZ4qXTS37G4W9hrc5knBfVEdQokSRxA7CVLNxYGhre?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speaking Elvish on Mars— Humanity's Future]]></title><description><![CDATA[Administrative Law, Space Law Thought Experiment, Sociology Today I thought I'd take a break from our scheduled programming. Every week I try to write something informative explaining why robots should]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/administrativelaw/@artificially/speakingelvishonmarshumanitysfuture-nt6z3stz6jkfy2xa4cdp</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/administrativelaw/@artificially/speakingelvishonmarshumanitysfuture-nt6z3stz6jkfy2xa4cdp</guid><category><![CDATA[administrativelaw]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[artificially]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2021 09:45:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/X37EMQ9WSwsJeKMC8dMTzAv2QRrg8VhFqqXi46kgKnfcRkAyaVMdDav7TWU3NTVGu2sX2qX5EdU954oVdr1K4phAw5KY3vapipM7t?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speaking Elvish on Mars— Humanity's Future]]></title><description><![CDATA[Administrative Law, Space Law Thought Experiment, Sociology Today I thought I'd take a break from our scheduled programming. 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Before the Great Reform Act, the]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@artificially/personhoodfromgroundzero-mu4i69dlh66po3zy99n5</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@artificially/personhoodfromgroundzero-mu4i69dlh66po3zy99n5</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[artificially]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2020 19:24:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/62PdCouTvNPCjUshuffJtujJv1sfybScaJSBm8TJ6YijZbTfDem6moDeZbsszVoNw242cXKfpFFsJVjJ1DrVo9sZjk2pNvZrg4FxCpymQGMQmre?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Old School Mind Facing New Age Questions]]></title><description><![CDATA[As a human with a vividly overactive imagination, as I was walking through the store today, I began to wonder what the world would look like if innovations such as the Neurolink brain integration]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/livingonpurpose/@soulbasis/an-old-school-mind-facing-new-age-questions</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/livingonpurpose/@soulbasis/an-old-school-mind-facing-new-age-questions</guid><category><![CDATA[livingonpurpose]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[soulbasis]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2020 04:13:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/Zskj9C56UonXkTjiTwb3XQw4GUbRPk8vXNrXCFeGVebzZZBPTVH5GpBzN1zsyQR1mJkwseu64PZXtAf8jdsM4agN14vdnAYKPTgkzABkkmXFytrfcZav?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pascal's 21st Century Wager]]></title><description><![CDATA[Theology, Robot Rights, Philosophy, Thought Experiment Pascal’s Wager has long been established as a way in which people try to logically justify their beliefs in God. Belief is treated as a gamble, instead]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@artificially/pascals21stcenturywager-8rtxvjfj3w</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@artificially/pascals21stcenturywager-8rtxvjfj3w</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[artificially]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:11:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/ADdPNihJzmPZx4jKSDr1DKvytNXT6X6Ej8LrwncwGANFXHsmrb6Fw2vA3g4zP1EgNVL78FbacY1R9wc5AqDJZQsKL?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cogitant, Igitur Sunt. They think, therefore they are.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Robot Rights, Activism, Thought Experiment, Philosophy Descartes’ Cogito is one of the most iconic pieces of philosophy in existence. Cogito ergo sum. I think, therefore I am. 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I mean, I'm sure that It would not be fair to generalize, to say that the only reason why someone is here, why someone is participating of cryptocurrencies is because they]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/cryptocurrency/@meno/if-no-bull-was-coming</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/cryptocurrency/@meno/if-no-bull-was-coming</guid><category><![CDATA[cryptocurrency]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[meno]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2019 22:36:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7ohP4GDMGPrTjuXAiZTPVqUaY94wfgqafo5eoNHVAek6Jo9XucyEw3NHQfNC4di28kvYMdg31zEQysGh1Ubs7jsy4Aq1SkwgxsBL?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Halfneum: a cryptocurrency thought experiment]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cryptocurrencies are something sorta new, since bitcoin is now almost ten years old. When envisioned they were meant to be currencies, used to buy and exchange value. However, they have become far more]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/cryptocurrency/@anzha/halfneum-a-cryptocurrency-thought-experiment</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/cryptocurrency/@anzha/halfneum-a-cryptocurrency-thought-experiment</guid><category><![CDATA[cryptocurrency]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[anzha]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2018 16:28:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Can Free Will and Fate Coexist? (You're unlikely to find the answer in this post)]]></title><description><![CDATA[@salmanrajz asks; do we have free will? Thank you to everyone who offered suggestions for what philosophical question I should tackle today. I chose this one because I feel it is incredibly important.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@son-of-satire/how-can-free-will-and-fate-coexist-you-re-unlikely-to-find-the-answer-in-this-post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@son-of-satire/how-can-free-will-and-fate-coexist-you-re-unlikely-to-find-the-answer-in-this-post</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[son-of-satire]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2018 16:10:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hey, nice to see you again...]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's been a few days since I’ve eaten anything, I don’t really feel like eating sometimes, but it's not because I’m not hungry, it's more because they are making the food, their stench is on everything.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/life/@meno/hey-nice-to-see-you-again</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/life/@meno/hey-nice-to-see-you-again</guid><category><![CDATA[life]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[meno]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2018 03:14:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7b4bio5hobgu85mFpLjsB5bdcQRiiGHJEPFYM5SsnL3hZqa29afxTvvhwYbmJrAdS82wSvoQbD4ExmiBQ2YHRqcuQwXikQevybAAUcL5gUvmAHmSxBDqUBw6aiZLGD34ioHkMKf4vLhMgDnjkGWECYqV3Kt2?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[So Good A Thing To Be Trippen Far Out Yet Grounded Without A Doubt.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Another one of those times where you take it all in, look at life, move forward, cheer up for the right reasons. Almost lose yourself to let your self go to see yourself in action. Get out of your own]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/life/@havok777/so-good-a-thing-to-be-trippen-far-out-yet-grounded-without-a-doubt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/life/@havok777/so-good-a-thing-to-be-trippen-far-out-yet-grounded-without-a-doubt</guid><category><![CDATA[life]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[havok777]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2018 05:52:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/o1AJ9qDyyJNSg42tMXE3yxRphXzokhdVRCEcjwpoPE6Ce24bp?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Would you use Steemit.com if it didn't pay you?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Just a little thought experiment. In our age of data and information manipulation and control, decentralized platforms for expression are essential. 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