UrukParthian

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by UrukParthian 8y ago
The problem with GMOs is that you can skip to dangerous islands of viability that would be impossible with standard breeding. At least that's my understanding of Taleb's argument against GMOs.
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by UrukParthian 8y ago
IIRC, in the absence of writing, humans had great oral memory. Not only that but they used other mental tricks. EX: Aborigines connecting myths to places in terms like "... And this is where angry bear slept for three days. The water h
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by UrukParthian 8y ago
And of course this "efficiency" doesn't put, into reckoning, the stress of population density on cognition. Especially "diverse density". Coming back from the military, I kept the same "look around at all times
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by UrukParthian 8y ago
People work with the best hardware and software they can. And for a lot of people, both components are shit beyond coexisting with other members of a "tribe". A lot of people absolutely suck at abstract thought, although "suc
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by UrukParthian 8y ago
I wouldn't think of it as a theory. More like an off-the-cuff hypothesis, based on seeing and creating simulations of systems, that we ourselves are creations of a simulation. A single universe could be host to innumerable amounts of
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by UrukParthian 9y ago
Your facts is what he says to the public. That's not a "fact", that's taking politics at face value. I told you, such men are sharks. Not merely the men you back on your own political aisle. I told you to read Robert Car
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by UrukParthian 9y ago
You're spoiled beyond belief if you view "toxic" comments online as a serious problem. If it is truly "a problem", then the larger problem is tying your emotions to what anonymous people say. You live vicariously th
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by UrukParthian 9y ago
Dangerously minimizing? What's dangerous is a culture addicted to simulating political action by managing online comments. Instead if putting resources to making your local garden great, to mangle Nietzsche of Ecco Homo, people get wor
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by UrukParthian 9y ago
Toxic statements = statements from a different political orientation Why are people so willing to embrace Orwellian doublethink? My prediction is that such a sword will do decapitate undeserving people of all political aisles.
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by UrukParthian 9y ago
Do you think he cares about you the coherence of his statements when they provoke a strong emotional reaction from a dumb population addicted to emotionally reacting and addicted to signaling alliegence to some vague social grouping? You&#x
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by UrukParthian 9y ago
It's almost like politicians manage their perception and image in strategic ways where they lull their enemies into being emotionally caught up with minor character flaws rather than the tactics and orientation of their actions. The sm
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by UrukParthian 9y ago
Accountable for what? We have a disastrous dietary culture in this country, a never ending bomb of acute illnesses that waste trillions to merely mitigate symptoms that could have been avoided with better information. An obese nation litera
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by UrukParthian 9y ago
And to add, they're even worse than milkshakes. At least there's fat content which slows insulin resistance.
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by UrukParthian 9y ago
You act as if we were helpless. You're just seeing the ugly side of "average" people. How quick they are to form blobs around novel information. How lacking in critical thought most people are. It sounds almost absurdly cynic
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by UrukParthian 9y ago
And the old media was a propaganda machine. And a total waste of cognitive frames. How I wish I could trade all the stupid ads I saw for a memory of a few seconds with my wife. If people are being radicalized, it signals that maybe the syst