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by anbende 3y ago
I am a clinical psychologist and did research related to empathy and compassion. Often in clinical work I have seen almost the exact opposite distinction between empathy and sympathy with empathy being understanding and sympathy being share
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by anbende 4y ago
Interesting, I've never thought about it in terms of % of years lived and when. I recently saw that 7% of all humans who ever lived are alive today. Wild. And I agree that it really does show the dominance of recent history. Small poin
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by anbende 4y ago
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by anbende 4y ago
Is it? The difference is in 2-4 year range for most of the chart. Is 2-4 years of life expectancy drastic? I didn't read it as such, but I'm not really sure how to assess how big that difference is, honestly...
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by anbende 4y ago
While that's true, the difference may still be enough to explain the 2-4 year difference in life expectancy that is shown on the chart.
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by anbende 4y ago
When I was in Peru, they kind of prescribed antibiotics for everything. Persistent cold? Antibiotics. Like that. Source: lived there with Peruvian partner for 18 months.
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by anbende 4y ago
It's not that deliberate practice isn't a big factor and very important. It's the idea that it's massively and overwhelmingly decisive. For example, this meta-analysis of sports performance found that deliberate practice
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by anbende 4y ago
That's correct. He ignores and sometimes intentionally misconstrues the evidence in order to tell a compelling story. He makes bold claims that are not really backed up by anything. Take the 10,000 hours claim? Based on very little. Th
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by anbende 4y ago
Right, except that gold has inherent value. Historically we thought it was pretty and made jewelry out of it. It’s important for a variety of technology products. It’s a value store because it is consistently valuable first. Bitcoin skips t
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by anbende 4y ago
The hard version of this, sometimes called Strong Whorfianism (after the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis) is relatively easy to discredit. Imagine a system of gears. Turn them and adjust them in your mind. You’re thinking in images rather than langu
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by anbende 4y ago
> No longer distant, traditional patriarchal father figures, dads can use jokes to bond and interact with their children, using simple humor that is most often appreciated by children earlier on in their development. I think this is a bi
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by anbende 5y ago
I think the prior comment is pretty spot on. It's hard for me to think of anyone I might ask for something and not feel annoyed or even disrespected if I was given absolutely no explanation. Even if I had reached out to someone I don&#
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by anbende 5y ago
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by anbende 5y ago
I was just watching a GM Hikaru video (bullet speed run) and be briefly talked about this. He said her recommends people stay away from bullet until they have an “over the table” elo of about 1800 (1900 or 2000 online). He said you could pr
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by anbende 5y ago
This is really interesting. I’ve been thinking of getting into a VR setup for productivity and collaboration. Would you mind sharing some details about your hardware/software setup? Any pitfalls or difficulties you’ve run into? Motion
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by anbende 5y ago
Right, so this doesn’t hit real estate or private companies (yet), but it would hit many very wealthy people who have large holdings in publicly traded companies (often ones they founded). Looking at you Bezos… And it’s true stocks are quit
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by anbende 5y ago
I’m not sure this solves the current problem of the wealthy living off loans against unrealized capital investments. One of the issues that this plan is trying to address is that these gains are forever unrealized, but the person still has
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by anbende 5y ago
I have mostly skeptical about tax plans like this one that tax non-liquid assets. It seems odd to me to tax a person’s illiquid holdings in a company for example. Do we force people to sell pieces of their property to pay the taxes on that
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Senate Democrats unveil a plan for a new tax on billionaires(npr.org)
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by anbende 5y ago
They likely won’t take any of their acquisitions down with them. They’ve been pretty good about keeping them mostly separate. They’ll be spun off in any eventual liquidation. Unless you think they are being mismanaged or mismarketed now?
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by anbende 5y ago
Hi, psychologist here. Cognitive decline is not my specialty but I’ve taken doctoral level courses in it. The problem with the “shorter higher quality life” position is that diet, exercise and health affect EVERYTHING. Exercise and diet are
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by anbende 5y ago
Yes, and if a software engineer writes a piece of software on their own time and it becomes a hit and/or gets purchased by a large company, they can make a lot of money too. But if a writer is hired as a salary writer for a show, they&
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by anbende 5y ago
Right but as has been pointed out elsewhere, the linked article does not say to avoid speaking. Instead it says to avoid a strong focus on forced speech in a classroom, which likely means the sorts of repetition exercises that many of us re
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by anbende 5y ago
Thanks for your response. I'm trying to understand your position here, and I'm really not getting it. Aside from the obvious problem of their being living people who experienced the holocaust (so they still exist), this example se
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by anbende 5y ago
Those people are also gone and no longer have any beliefs or ideas that can be violated. Nothing we do today affects those people or their beliefs in any way. Those people no longer exist and cannot be harmed or protected. Ideas about respe
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by anbende 5y ago
Except that the mummy in the museum isn’t a person. It’s a collection of inanimate organic matter. There are no beliefs there to respect. They ended with the person’s life thousands of years ago. I could see an argument made for modern rema
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by anbende 5y ago
Regarding (2), now that there are on the order of a billion non-native speakers of English who often talk to each other, we will see more and more changes to the language from THEIR mistakes. English will belong less and less to native spea
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by anbende 5y ago
So a cursory google search shows this definition of “native speaker” in several places: “a person who has spoken the language in question from earliest childhood” And this makes sense, because “native” as an adjective means: “associated wit
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by anbende 5y ago
It sounds like you're reacting strongly to the word delusional, and it may be my mistake for using a word that often comes with such strong negative connotations. My intended meaning was that there are beliefs here that aren't and
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by anbende 5y ago
Thank you. My more recent work has focused more on mental health constructs used to track clinical progress over time. The parts I like the most are more concerned with the activation of emotion systems than behavioral tendencies or persona

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