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1111.
by card_zero 1y ago
It's so obvious, this invisible thing? Seems to me the wishful thinking could go either way here, and you could build a whole imaginary castle of hidden innate abilities, since they're hidden.
1112.
by card_zero 1y ago
Per Scott Adams' "Passion is Bullshit", what really helps with motivation is to succeed already. If you have good luck and your initial efforts pay off, you'll probably want to build on that. If you have bad luck and it
1113.
by card_zero 1y ago
Robert Wadlow was talented at being nearly nine feet tall. He could be very tall better than anyone, but we don't usually count genetics.
1114.
by card_zero 1y ago
And "generic trademark" is the Wikipedia article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark Huh, bubble wrap, even.
1115.
by card_zero 1y ago
That's an inversion of Pascal's wager. Pascal says if I'm right about this my death will reward me, therefore I believe, and you've come up with if I'm wrong about this my death will criticise me, therefore I bel
1116.
by card_zero 1y ago
It's got a certain appeal, but I'm undecided. Will I be allowed to opt out?
1117.
by card_zero 1y ago
So you advocate a traditional, orderly, socially acceptable form of killing everybody, by maintaining traditional death against possible ways to overcome it.
1118.
by card_zero 1y ago
Or, being static was not even adaptive, but was just a dearth of good ideas (ideas about ideas) that arose later.
1119.
by card_zero 1y ago
Ideas improve over time. So people in the past have worse ideas. This might include fear of change, and some mythological notion of an eternal golden way of life, which you must dutifully maintain by spending a thousand years not inventing
1120.
by card_zero 1y ago
It was all about the irrigation, apparently. It's vital to keep life-giving fluids in your irrigation canal, and by extension also in your body, otherwise you're a loser. Something along those lines.
1121.
by card_zero 1y ago
Extremely rare meteoric iron, yes. So, not a historically significant iron age. Neat and all, but not a big cultural upheaval, making one dagger.
1122.
by card_zero 1y ago
Except in Belgium from 2007 to 2011. I think they had two separate periods of seven months without a government due to Dutch-speaking and French-speaking parties engaging in what they called negotiation. This happens immediately after elect
1123.
by card_zero 1y ago
> This is all a digression from the main claims, so I'd prefer that people don't pull on this thread You want to say your piece and get no back-chat? Romans started to hit people with iron swords at a certain date, influencing
1124.
by card_zero 1y ago
They found ancient inhabitants of Georgia using iron ore as flux for copper smelting, so it's a theory of how they went from one to the other. It's not terribly exciting but it beats "they tried smelting rocks at random to
1125.
by card_zero 1y ago
Good question, I couldn't quite put it in words, but it's the popularity that bothers me. It could be popular because everybody's having great insights, but it could also be popular because everybody's greatly persuaded
1126.
by card_zero 1y ago
Being able to draw better than people who can "visualize" better throws doubt on what type of thing "visualizing" really is.
1127.
by card_zero 1y ago
But people who do dmt are also liable to say "oh shit I can see the machine elves, I totally get what people mean now". Which is not to say that their reports are unreliable, just inscrutable.
1128.
by card_zero 1y ago
You can tell me what the testable hypothesis is.
1129.
by card_zero 1y ago
Why's that, then? I'm digging around in the Wikipedia article on "burden of proof", quick, head me off at the pass before I quote it. Heh, it mentions "burden tennis". It all devolves to who's got the stat
1130.
by card_zero 1y ago
Did I say I'm right? I assume we're all wrong in ways yet to be discovered, that's my default position on everything. And I've modified my viewpoint slightly just now: I accept that there are loose groups of people who e
1131.
by card_zero 1y ago
You didn't really say anything here yourself other than that you're awed by it. Also that I'm the one who has to do all the work apparently.
1132.
by card_zero 1y ago
Are you trying to help them believe?
1133.
by card_zero 1y ago
Well, I'm an artist, but I don't insist that I can visualise things vividly, whatever that really means. I'm looking at the brain scans in the article now. It's good that it's got 'em. Do they really mean what
1134.
by card_zero 1y ago
I respect you, fellowniusmonk, but all we ever get about aphantasia is self-report, anecdote, self-assessment questionnaire, subjective impression. People want me to be nice about this and acknowledge that the thing exists because they all
1135.
by card_zero 1y ago
Patient MX there is quite persuasive. Lots of neuroscience discoveries start with somebody having some brain damage and losing a facility of some kind. However, most of the people claiming aphantasia, or the extreme opposite, are not brain
1136.
by card_zero 1y ago
I feel in my gut that this is fad-driven internet bullshit, and I would like to learn less, if it were possible. > Dr. Adam Zeman, a neurologist from Exeter, receives a patient who can no longer imagine — known as patient MX. MX goes bl
1137.
by card_zero 1y ago
Neither LLMs nor popular search engines return "I don't know" often enough. They will waste your time with bad approximations to an answer instead. But as you say, "the thing you're asking for might not exist"
1138.
by card_zero 1y ago
Yeah, there's problems, like puzzles and mysteries, and then there's difficulties, and there's no sharp dividing line but the difficulties are less fun. And are also called problems. So far as moral duty goes, play to your st
1139.
by card_zero 1y ago
Which (as mentioned there) has evolved into a form where all three things are the same: money, money, money, location, location, location, education, education, education, and of course developers, developers, developers.
1140.
by card_zero 1y ago
That's not a real Popper quote, is it. The sentiment is nice, but it must be radically paraphrased, because he doesn't generate pithy quotes very often. > To conclude, I think that there is only one way to science—or to philoso

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