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by curi 19y ago
The more fundamental problem with colleges is they have no idea how to help people learn. And don't even think that's what they should be doing. No, they want to "teach" students, by which they mean force them to listen to lectures, whether
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by curi 19y ago
i use them on a weekly basis: netflix
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by curi 19y ago
People do raise men to be gay. Happens all the time. A few percent of parents do it (I don't know any reliable statistics). Not on purpose, sure, but parents don't raise straight kids on purpose either. (Yes, people try to "make their kid
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by curi 19y ago
it doesn't cost $3000 unless you want $1200 of options.
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Before intelligence, there was no such thing as 'sexual attraction' in the current sense. There was only the exact same thing animals have: programs that behave in certain ways, based on certain inputs. Like a DARPA car steers left on certa
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by curi 19y ago
Yes, his comment about French people being bad at rational thinking was low quality. But why respond with an insult? That is also a type of low quality comment.
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by curi 19y ago
I don't mean other existing cultures are different. (Although, there are differences.) I mean it is a matter of culture (ideas) not "humanity" (DNA). There are many reasons to believe this. Two are: - memes evolve orders of magnitude fast
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by curi 19y ago
don't be too discouraged by the economy. do you really want to make a major life decision based on what your parents think they know? and learned before the internet? at the very least, research the topic yourself. but also, it's not good t
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by curi 19y ago
I get it now. Darwin designed our DNA. Intelligent design, and Darwinism, are both right.
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It isn't "human" it is "cultural". Still shouldn't deny it, but it can and will change. (And has changed a lot already!)
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I agree that understanding why is important, but I don't think having some silly comments prevents that. Though in this case, what interests me more than why France is primitive, is why we are better. Which part of our traditions prevents u
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Because they hate freedom.
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by curi 19y ago
one thing i don't understand is how can you make money by trading every couple minutes? because aren't there fees for every trade.
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if you focus on one girl that's very risky, if you learn how to have a high percentage chance with most women, that is a low-risk investment
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win. ty. edit: this is interesting too: http://www.fastseduction.com/
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by curi 19y ago
You can't downmod comments until you have a certain amount of karma. I think it's around 25. Edit: lol someone downmodded this. obviously mad about something else i posted. I hope he doesn't think of going through my comment history and dow
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by curi 19y ago
Yeah, it amused me. Also I'm considering changing the post title to either: Upvote if you love Hitler. or Upvote if you think being able to edit post titles is weird. And I needed a frontpage post to do that with. However, it's good to be a
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Maybe it's because smarter people tend to be less average. Less conventional. Less traditional. Deviating from tradition is the only way to get amazing new gains. But the majority of deviations are mistakes and make things go wrong. And whe
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by curi 19y ago
He quotes a person whose like or dislike of Dennet is not based on how good Dennet's ideas are and instead are based on personal character: "I used to be a rabid Dennettite [until] I started reading more widely in the subject, and found t
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by curi 19y ago
I mostly post controversial comments. This is obviously not the ideal way to get high karma, but I'm not very active and have 188 karma anyway, so it seems to work fine.
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As a programmer, I can tell you I really don't mind that changing my website requires a programmer. It's perfectly convenient for me. The only reason to do something differently is a client requirement, or a desire on my part to get someone
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by curi 19y ago
There are imperfectly organized firms because the market doesn't provide perfect answers, it helps us to gradually create knowledge. As people here may know, firms are gradually coming to play a less dominant role in the world, and small, a
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by curi 19y ago
they didn't predict the mess, in detail. making negative predictions is easy, but getting the specifics right is hard. if you got it right with enough accuracy, you could have made a few billion dollars. many tried, few succeeded. http://o
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Why do you think that?
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by curi 19y ago
Breaking windows increases the need for new windows, thus paving the wave for new window technology. But you could have researched that anyway, without breaking the window first. When you are forced to research something b/c of a broken win
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There are laws of physics, which govern how knowledge is created, and how it is not. Superstitious methods of thinking cannot create a higly advanced civilization. Knowledge is created by a process of replication (with errors), and selectio
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by curi 19y ago
Is this like breaking windows creates wealth, or what? Physical goods are destroyed. Man hours are used up. How is that wealth creation?
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The more advanced aliens are, the more we can make reliable predictions about them. For example, they will have values and ways of thinking closer to what we call "scientific" than "religious/mystical/superstitious/etc." If they did not, th
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by curi 19y ago
No, we're all going to die!11!1!!1111111111111

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