KennethMyers

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Why humans can't draw(techno-anthropology.blogspot.com)
21 points by KennethMyers 15y ago|1 comments
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On Sadness(techno-anthropology.blogspot.com)
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The Deaf Jew (or, "On doing what you love")(techno-anthropology.blogspot.com)
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Death to Dichotomy: The common impulse behind hacker fascinations(techno-anthropology.blogspot.com)
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by KennethMyers 15y ago
>If it were 100%, I'd worry we were being too conservative in >who we funded." Note to self: if you're succeeding in everything you're doing, you're probably failing to attempt awesome things in which you could succeed.
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Calculating Your Manliness in MS Excel(techno-anthropology.blogspot.com)
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The Rabbit and the Mastodon: An Ancient Dilemma of Work and Wealth(techno-anthropology.blogspot.com)
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by KennethMyers 15y ago
I'm in agreement that life was life, and it wasn't so bad. You're right. Some of the specifics, though, of my case, would be impossible without the internet. I'm sure I'd have a job. But remotely writing textbooks for a Korean company proba
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A Stoic Meditation on the Non-Existence of the Internet(techno-anthropology.blogspot.com)
31 points by KennethMyers 15y ago|3 comments
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On keeping a journal, and forcing myself to make predictions.(techno-anthropology.blogspot.com)
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Bitcoin, Wikileaks, and the Rise of In-Spite-of-Archy (techno-anthropology.blogspot.com)
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A Rough Guide to Social Skills for Awkward Smart People(techno-anthropology.blogspot.com)
273 points by KennethMyers 15y ago|126 comments
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by KennethMyers 16y ago
Hey ComputerGuru, thanks for reposting this. Where'd it go?
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Factoring, in Forth and fiction(techno-anthropology.blogspot.com)
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A method for producing new-style baby names (with working javascript example)(techno-anthropology.blogspot.com)
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A hacker's guide to second language acquisition(techno-anthropology.blogspot.com)
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My new political affiliation (Or how the Kickstarter model can replace politics)(techno-anthropology.blogspot.com)
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Doubting at the door: when it's right to be wrong. (For the lesswrong crowd.)(techno-anthropology.blogspot.com)
14 points by KennethMyers 16y ago|17 comments
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Aversion to computers in the social sciences: the story of ethno-telephony(techno-anthropology.blogspot.com)
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Why robots should have foreign accents(techno-anthropology.blogspot.com)
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by KennethMyers 16y ago
You're totally right. As a matter of fact, in undergrad I had a professor (Dr. Robert? Hard) who found even more correlates, some of them environmental, and plugged them into a GIS that would highlight good candidate sites for archaeologica
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by KennethMyers 16y ago
God I love civil dialogue. Please, nobody ever tell the rest of the internet about Hacker News.
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by KennethMyers 16y ago
You may be right. Most anthropologists see technological/memetic evolution as largely supplanting genetic evolution after the sedentary shift (so that we, say, invent glasses rather than getting better eyes), but I often wonder myself how m
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by KennethMyers 16y ago
I think that the value of money has diminishing returns, so that more than $60K per annum doesn't make you more happy ( http://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_kahneman_the_riddle_of_exper... . If automation and efficiency could bring most people t
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by KennethMyers 16y ago
Some people (Rousseau, Kaczynski, and in a narrower way Marx) say that the change was brought on not by the masses, but by the stong men who enslaved them. Others (like Robert Wright (and me!)) think that civilization meant net net gain, ev
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by KennethMyers 16y ago
Hernan7, you're right. I'm going to change that right now. Like most people's blogs, mine is mostly read by friends. In my case, we're all book nerds who get together and talk on themes like these. But in a public context that does look lik
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Utopia's scaffolding: What civilization took from us, I think we will get back.(techno-anthropology.blogspot.com)
20 points by KennethMyers 16y ago|22 comments