roceasta

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by roceasta 9y ago
Isn't being more familiar with words a good thing? Another thing that seems to help is keeping a boring old deadwood dictionary next to my favourite armchair.
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by roceasta 9y ago
One thing that helps my reading, paradoxically, is listening to speech on headphones whilst out on a walk. I sometimes find myself visualising the words as I hear them. Presumably this helps me to recognise them more speedily in print.
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by roceasta 9y ago
I take a jam jar containing tap water when out and about ('preserving jar' in US I think). Being made of glass it doesn't leach chemicals plus it cleans conveniently in the dishwasher. It fits fine in a backpack and you can
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by roceasta 9y ago
Having to work to survive keeps people engaged with reality and I think this may explain why people in the past and in developing countries today seem to be at least as happy and mentally resilient as modern westerners, maybe more so. In sp
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by roceasta 9y ago
I like the idea of basic income but I confess that my ideal of a basic income recipient is someone akin to the 19th-century amateur scientist subsisting on a private income whilst making original contributions to human knowledge, and, as a
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by roceasta 9y ago
Can't recommend a specific link, but I remember when looking into vitamins and so on several years ago I found the Vitamin D Council and the Weston Price Foundation both interesting and useful.
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by roceasta 9y ago
What I mean is that the idea that reinforcement learning is a 'low level dual' of the problem of consciousness is also a theory about the problem of consciousness. It's part and parcel of philosophical topics that one can&#x2
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by roceasta 9y ago
>switch to the low level dual of this problem [...] reinforcement learning. But that is itself a theory about the problem of consciousness! So why not do both? There's no obvious short cut through the confusion, but discoveries
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by roceasta 9y ago
Emily Deans writes very informatively about nutrition topics in a sea of dross (also about medicine, psychology, biology if I recall correctly). Another use of Magnesium is as a adjunct to Vitamin D3 supplementation, since magnesium is used
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by roceasta 9y ago
Yes, as Daniel Dennett says, groping around trying to find the right questions is what philosophy is . The confusion can be upsetting for both philosophers and non-philosophers. Creating a space for questions and contradictory ideas is a m
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by roceasta 9y ago
Point taken. One reading of the article is that meta-consciousness is the new consciousness (whatever that was). I think of consciousness as being 'what you are paying attention to and what it is like'. One problem with this is
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by roceasta 9y ago
That would be a double whammy since debtors have diminished political influence/lobbying power even with the vote.
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by roceasta 9y ago
This seems consistent with my experience that when I'm attending hard to a task I have no idea what it is like. >For instance, it is the occurrence of a sense perception that triggers the metacognitive realization one is perceiving
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by roceasta 9y ago
Yeah it's the opposite of the Nigerian prince scam which is designed to filter out respondents with any intelligence or common sense.
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by roceasta 9y ago
Are all beliefs fictional? What's the difference, if any, between holding such beliefs and attending a Harry Potter convention in costume?
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by roceasta 9y ago
Yes, it's complicated. Yet I don't think I committed an equivocation. As I said, what makes the difference is compulsion/coercion, which causes us to interpret scariness in one context as bad (e.g. falling off a ladder), and
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by roceasta 9y ago
Yes, feasible, but what makes large-scale censorship so apparently desirable, or at least so widely desired? The first obvious thought is that there are repressive governments around the world who wish to keep power. And this is true. But i
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by roceasta 9y ago
Slow approach with a sheet 20-30cm wide held at opposite edges by both hands. The film being transparent the fly sometimes doesn't notice it. Also a convenient means of disposal.
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by roceasta 9y ago
>Yes, I have a lot of time on my hands. Also a lot of fly goo.
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by roceasta 9y ago
Agree with your first paragraph but isn't it his talent that you are judging in the second (and therefore forgiveness is not applicable)? Myself I'm starting to question the sense of judging people for their 'beliefs'.
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by roceasta 9y ago
Yes. Bring the hand close very slowly, forefinger cocked... then....pow. Other techniques I've employed: (1) cling film (saran wrap), (2) detergent spray (slows em down; dispatch after 2-4 rounds), (3) vacuum cleaner nozzle (they hun
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by roceasta 9y ago
>that territory tends to be picked clean, precisely because those insights are so valuable People often think that a field has been 'picked clean' and conclude that either no further progress is possible or that further discove
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by roceasta 9y ago
What circumstances bring out the 'madness of crowds' as opposed to the 'wisdom of crowds'?
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by roceasta 9y ago
That's true; there's cooperation everywhere and at every level. But there's competition too. There are of course many organisms that kill and maim others to make a living. So the divine unity that the mystics, poets and psych
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by roceasta 9y ago
>one whole living system of which we're just cells It's a moving metaphor but of course cells within us have the same genome whereas different humans have different genomes. So it's hard to consider them part of one livi
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by roceasta 9y ago
Isn't one of the reasons for handshakes thought to be to show that one isn't carrying a weapon? Since women aren't expected under most circumstances to go about armed, they have less reason to shake.
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by roceasta 9y ago
But frankly if we're going to spend our lives obsessing about extreme tail risks then we've already lost Yes. And the tail risks are asymmetrical here. Bureaucrats take on responsibility for thousands or hundreds-of-thousands of
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by roceasta 9y ago
Have you noticed that most adults don't know what nine times seven is? If you ask them on the street they'll mostly either get it wrong or tell you quite rudely to go away. This is despite (and because of) a decade of grind at sch
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by roceasta 9y ago
Nicely illustrated. As you imply, the scariness is a property of schooling rather than of mathematics itself. And where game play is scary, it's at a level chosen by and controlled by the player, for optimal learning I suspect.
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by roceasta 9y ago
I think this also explains why driving tests aren't as bad as school: they are pass/fail and one can re-take as many times as wanted.

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