internaut

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by internaut 10y ago
The adage 'birds of a feather flock together' is a true one. Our ability to communicate with each other relies most strongly on shared experience esp. with regard to normative behavior, thoughts. I would not advise you to act as n
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by internaut 10y ago
Did anybody understand where Margaret Levi got this? "Indeed, the expectation of reciprocity can both reduce and even undermine altruism." Surely expectation of reciprocity would make the reciprocal loop stronger, not weaker.
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by internaut 10y ago
As I see it, neurodiversity is more useful if the environment suddenly changes. In a stable environmental niche most forms of neurodiversity are probably a drawback. For instance (reflecting on your examples) it should be obvious to us that
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by internaut 10y ago
Surely we have devised experiments for which the use of the human genome is indeed expendable? e.g. tissue cultures.
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by internaut 10y ago
We have a positive surplus of intelligent ambitious people in Japan, Europe and America. What we don't have is savings or capital. This malaise is generational, not regional.
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by internaut 10y ago
I see that. I don't see a lot of urgency in our societies either. Perhaps you have seen this: https://i.redditmedia.com/LkKBNe1NW51Wh-8nLSTRdQtTha2sV1yY46... I blame the television and the media, they have sunk the pop
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by internaut 10y ago
Have you seen this? https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/199300...
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by internaut 10y ago
As much as I endorse concepts like Minimalism, Tiny Houses and Ride Sharing for reasons of practicality/economy, it should be abundantly obvious we're getting poorer. It is not even subtle and a good portion of us are pretending i
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by internaut 10y ago
I'll be filing this next to Wired Magazine's "Five Most Dangerous People on the Internet".
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by internaut 10y ago
No.
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by internaut 10y ago
If you would like to have a positive story this Christmas, then for Tiny Housers we had some Building Codes people formally include us into their thing. In the future it will be legal to live in Tiny Houses. http://www.greenbuild
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by internaut 10y ago
There is another far more terrible weapons system nobody is talking in public about. We should assume this 'space based missile' is a distraction from something so monstrous the public would lose its mind if its existence was conf
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by internaut 10y ago
I have not, it resides mere feet away on my bookshelf and I shall read it this Winter :-)
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by internaut 10y ago
I love audio drama, these are the good ones. Sayer | If AGI ran your space station/life. http://geeklyinc.com/category/sayer/ EOS-10 | Space Sci-fi comedy, great acting. http://www.eos10.com/
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by internaut 10y ago
Are you listening cstross? It is time to write a novel about the evils of peace among the spacefaring. Service guarantees citizenship!
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by internaut 10y ago
Any interstellar species could be too easily wiped out if the enemy knew the locations of the home worlds, so they would go to enormous lengths to conceal the locations. It is similar to modern war on Earth. So the flashes in the sky could
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by internaut 10y ago
> That's the problem with induction and not knowing enough about the greater universe. Things are always fine and dandy for the turkey until Thanksgiving comes. This is why the spectre of dead civilizations like Rome haunt us to thi
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by internaut 10y ago
It's funny how few people want to talk about that.
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by internaut 10y ago
Happy Christmas Mr Sock. I see what you're saying but am still not sure the traits you've described are separable from the psychology of men and women. I think the author would have been more balanced had she compared and contrast
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by internaut 10y ago
> we need to actually tackle many of the root problems We have frequently shifting national moods so why is it a surprise our foreign policy behaves as if it has a multiple personality disorder? If one was a cynic they might suggest this
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by internaut 10y ago
Right. Even then most corporations think a BA is a shitty filter, before much longer they'll decide to educate bright 16 year olds on their own terms and selection process. Certainly that is what I'd do if I wanted to increase loy
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by internaut 10y ago
I don't know if anybody else visited their website during the election cycle, but it was wall to wall coverage vilifying Trump. One has to wonder why a politician would pay heed to the words of an organization that evidently hates him.
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by internaut 10y ago
> "education" is a euphemism synonymous with college Peter Thiel has described at length this kind of error https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLJIpBexKhQ It has always impressed me how doctrinal higher education
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by internaut 10y ago
There are many ways to answer this. Here is a high level explanation of why we are in disagreement. Instead of explaining 'How' and getting bogged down in the details and worse, trapped by semantics, I shall explain 'Why&#x27
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by internaut 10y ago
Look at Moravec's Paradox. It's probably the most valid result from the research and yet it is overlooked. We'll have AI capable of replacing the middle class before we have robots capable of replacing the working class.
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by internaut 10y ago
I don't agree/understand Elon's reasoning here. > If we aren’t actually living through a simulation, Mr Musk said, then all human life is probably about to come to an end and so we should hope that we are living in one. “O
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by internaut 10y ago
This is not uncommon among the upper classes I've known. FWIW: Here is a gruff internet hug/shoulder squeeze.
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by internaut 10y ago
This is secular Creationism.
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by internaut 10y ago
You ought to know that Thinking, Fast and Slow has research in it that did not replicate. If you do some googling you'll observe a lot of people had a much more critical second take. I believe it was the recent rash of replication fail
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by internaut 10y ago
There is nothing random about where you are born. This is a false premise. It is about as not-random as it is possible to get. It is not some majestic yet universal coincidence that people have more in common with those who happen to share

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