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by curi 19y ago
I didn't say memes thwart biological evolution, I said they evolve faster . So any niche that can be, will be filled by a meme before our biology changes. You are right this wouldn't reverse pre-existing stuff. But what pre-existing thin
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by curi 19y ago
Reflexes are not high level human behavior. They are not part of our creative mind . Reflexes are built in, but that isn't relevant.
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by curi 19y ago
It shouldn't be a matter of which position we feel better about, or feel threatened by. We should evaluate this as a matter for reason and evidence.
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by curi 19y ago
But wouldn't you say that when you hug someone you love in a time of distress, you're feeling something innate and at your core? If I thought I was feeling something innate that would not be valid evidence I actually was, just a self-repo
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by curi 19y ago
Here is what I wrote on the subject a few weeks ago: http://www.scribd.com/doc/488229/Untitled (it's from email, the quoting got lost. the first 2 paragraphs had quoting)
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by curi 19y ago
How people interpret touch is definitely a high level personality trait that we can control. People often do. Some people associate touch with something bad and recoil from it. People also have cultural ideas about appropriate and inappr
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by curi 19y ago
High level human personalities aren't hardwired. They are many layers of interpretation above any hardwiring. It's like imagining that which assembly language is under your Ruby makes a difference to which programs you can write.
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by curi 19y ago
He advised parents to lie to their children about hugs :( Someone should tell him (and the rest of the world) that immortality is coming. It's sort of funny that he says these gifted children will question traditions, and then wants to help
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by curi 19y ago
Don't do any of them, and instead learn how to do things faster and learn faster. Then get bored a lot... ;)
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by curi 19y ago
Did they really have to apologize for their part in dispelling mystery ? :/
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by curi 19y ago
i also saw clockwise. and i'm definitely more logic oriented. i wouldn't make too big a deal out of this.
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by curi 19y ago
This thread is a good example of why I don't usually comment on YC. People don't take the discussions seriously enough. They ask a question and don't followup. It's not worth explaining things carefully here.
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by curi 19y ago
Yeah I saw that. I don't think we can tell much from it. Do you think it's revealing?
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by curi 19y ago
No. It requires registration and is unclear on whether I will have to pay to read it. I have read many other papers. Have you read it? Is the linked article misleading and it's actually good?
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by curi 19y ago
Studies like this have a simple formula: Find a correlation. Make up a cause. Pretend the correlation implies that cause, when in fact they have found absolutely zero evidence whatsoever of their conclusion. Get published.
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by curi 19y ago
can't i beat the wager by getting my parents and friends to give me a big pile of money a few days before my 55th birthday?
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by curi 19y ago
i was running up some stairs at a park during the 89 quake. didn't feel a thing. it's really quite easy, just a matter of timing.
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by curi 19y ago
but we didn't and still don't necessarily need a missile shield to prevent the atomic bomb from destroying us. we had, and used, diplomacy, locked weapons silos, etc
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by curi 19y ago
I'm not sure it's necessarily scripted -- maybe it was just seeded very carefully, so for each keyword it doesn't have much to choose from. But clearly it's saying a lot of things without understanding. Probably nothing special here.
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by curi 19y ago
This article is clueless. Sexual selection and genetic evolution is not guiding the fate of humanity, and it hasn't been for a long time. Memes evolve orders of magnitude faster and thus dominate.
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by curi 19y ago
Why do you think we will "probably" go extinct? That depends on creating risky knowledge faster than we create knowledge of how to mitigate those risks. Which in general seems unlikely, given that we are aware of the issue and can aim our p
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by curi 19y ago
find something you disagree with some of them about, and then resolve your disagreement.
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by curi 19y ago
taking that attitude further, let's wish everyone hated computers except yc readers, so we could have a big competitive advantage.
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by curi 19y ago
One part of it may be: Lisp culture contains the attitude that this is the right way to do things, and other ways are worse, and choosing them is a mistake. Thus, for anyone to take up Lisp, they have to admit to themselves their past decis
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by curi 19y ago
young kids have very little control over their lives. for example, they don't get to choose if they want to go to school or not. as they get older and become able to (and gain the legal right to), they certainly should take responsibility f
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by curi 19y ago
Besides private school, they could live somewhere else, or homeschool. Or if none of those will work, not have kids in the first place. None of these are easy options, but if you think the public schools are awful places, it's not reasonabl
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by curi 19y ago
let's blame the parents. if the schools suck, and they choose to send their kids there, how are they not responsible?
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by curi 19y ago
That solution is too specialized. You should simply hire a person to whip you when you aren't working. He can use his intelligence to cover many more cases than your firewall.
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by curi 19y ago
Wouldn't more abortions mean less unwanted children mean less screwed up children mean less crime? Sounds plausible to me -- the main issue is whether this is a big effect or a small (negligible) effect. This lead thing, on the other hand,
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by curi 19y ago
how about a rational exploration instead

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