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by Produce 15y ago
In regard to what you said about determined and directed practice, it's essentially a case of it being more about the quality, not quantity of time spent on something. I realised this a number of years ago and have been utilising it ever si
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by Produce 15y ago
Or isolation, starvation, psychedelic drugs, near death experiences and sex. There are countless ways of achieving inner peace. Personally, I think that even Buddhism is littered with dogma (any subject that people form groups around tends
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by Produce 15y ago
To put it into Buddhist terms, obsessive passion is one where the subject is attached to the result, or end goal, while harmonious passion is when the person cares only about the process. A technique for transforming the former into the lat
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by Produce 15y ago
What path worked for you?
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by Produce 15y ago
I guess they've never heard the phrase - "ideas are a dime a dozen".
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by Produce 15y ago
To put it another way, the makers of Angry Birds are crack dealers while Tarn prefers to expand minds by selling LSD.
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by Produce 15y ago
Just out of interest, could you provide any articles/resources that describe why they're illegal?
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by Produce 15y ago
Kind of similar to how some companies with a lot of money bully people into submission by suing them with the intent of forcing them to run out of money, even if when the company wouldn't actually win the case.
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by Produce 15y ago
I honestly couldn't tell if this was satire or real for a while. It looks like satire, smells like it, tastes like it but it really isn't. EDIT: It really is satire. Some damn good satire, had me fooled.
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by Produce 15y ago
I'm not looking to profit from this so I'll give you a brief summary of the concept. Essentially, the idea is to remove, or at the least, decrease, political influence over science. The problem right now is that very few scientists can rese
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by Produce 15y ago
That's weird, leaving Firefox 4 open on Arch Linux with, for example, a YouTube page open for a few hours breaks the player and requires the flash process to be killed and restarted before it works again. IME, it's not a stable piece of sof
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by Produce 15y ago
The corporation sounds like a sociopathic entity by it's very design. No wonder Mussolini said that corporatism was the first step towards fascism, which, rather alarmingly, implies that the world has already taken it's first steps towards
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by Produce 15y ago
That was the point I was trying to make :) OP suggested that whoever made the decision should face criminal liability. I said that all the other people involved should face it too.
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by Produce 15y ago
I've got an idea about this in the concept phase. Think OSS meets science.
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by Produce 15y ago
To reframe the situation, we have, presumably, a single person making a decision and a number of other people, who could see what was going on, deciding to play along. A counter argument is that they're just doing what they need to to keep
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by Produce 15y ago
I think that a mature organization has enough of a reputation to not need to do that. This approach to running an agency is necessary for the bootstrapping phase but beyond that it will become a burden very quickly. Best practices are prett
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by Produce 15y ago
I agree with your point about bureaucracy being necessary when using a hierarchical model for society. This has a basis in our neurochemistry, in particular, Dunbar's number which puts a limit on how many individuals we consider to be peopl
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by Produce 15y ago
I completely agree with your last point and half-agree with your first one. If we were talking about Vulcans then, yes, the optimizations would always be implemented. My personal experience is mainly with technology companies and in that fi
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by Produce 15y ago
I think that the reason for what you describe is essentially a paradigm mismatch. Automation aims to reduce the amount of work while businesses have the goal of making as much money as possible and, by extension, since money can only be acq
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by Produce 15y ago
>But it would be truly pathetic if the legal/economic organisation of our society was optimised for government surveillance and tax collection and not for the exercise of autonomy in pursuit of a meaningful life. Unfortunately, it alrea
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by Produce 15y ago
Well then the public space belongs to both of us, which means that you can't display certain things. For example, try hanging up a huge image of a naked woman on one of the sides of your house. It's your property but because of the effect i
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by Produce 15y ago
I think that it helps to look at the issue objectively rather than considering it from the perspective of the status quo. My point isn't so much that the kids don't have permission as much as it is that they won't get permission if they ask
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by Produce 15y ago
Others have already stated the points I wanted to make but I'd like to add another one to the discussion. There is a double standard on graffiti in the real world. Why can a company put it's logo in huge print for everyone to see but every
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by Produce 15y ago
What's so unfortunate about being against advertising? Maybe some of us don't like to have sales pitched without consent.
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by Produce 15y ago
Psychedelics are tools, albeit very sharp ones. I could use my knife to kill myself or chop some vegetables for a healthy salad. I think that the risks are greatly diminished when psych's are used the in right setting, for the right purpose
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by Produce 15y ago
The more important question we should be asking is if we really think that sacrificing freedom in the name of efficiency is a good idea. Freedom is equated with happiness, efficiency is equated with a lot of stuff. Have our mountains of stu
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by Produce 15y ago
> The reason we have copyright and a patent system is very simple: they're optimizations to make society better at producing more new stuff. Any optimization will sacrifice one thing for another. Perhaps a better approach would be to re
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by Produce 15y ago
The fact that we managed to get to the point where patents were legislated, while developing all of the necessary technology in the process, without patents proves that patents are not required for progress to occur.
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by Produce 15y ago
A complete disregard for using psychedelics to treat psychological disorders is the reason I can't take modern psychiatry seriously. We have compounds which are capable of producing deep, lasting changes yet the field is so political in nat
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by Produce 15y ago
Perhaps it's simple economics at work, with a physical foundation - men make many low risk investments whereas women make a handful of extremely high risk ones (bearing a child is physically very costly). Thus, men will be more inclined to

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