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by curi 19y ago
so, if i tell you (and provide evidence) that I am a parent of a 2 year old, will you concede the point? or if i produce other such parents of toddlers who agree with me, will you concede?
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by curi 19y ago
Only people who try reasoning with two year olds can understand what sort of processes are truth seeking and capable of solving problems and being educational, or not? Or only people who try reasoning with two year olds get so frustrated th
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by curi 19y ago
The reason hitting people is bad is not that you will get hit back. That is one reason, but it's not the most important one, otherwise it'd be ok to hit defenseless people (like one's children). Hitting people is an ineffective way of life
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by curi 19y ago
http://health.msn.com/kids-health/articlepage.aspx?cp-docume... That article says that 90% of American parents spank their toddlers. Whatever the real figure is, a lot of people's gut tells them that hitting their children is right. I agr
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by curi 19y ago
libertarians frequently take positions like "I own the TV, so it's my decision if/when it will be used." How does this book handle that sort of issue? (Note: I am generally libertarian-oriented and this kind of position is often taken by pe
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by curi 19y ago
I read http://www.takingchildrenseriously.com/ and its email list. (Note: website not updated recently.) I also write about parenting. Try http://www.curi.us/archives/list_category/50 or http://www.curi.us/archives/list_category/6 It'
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by curi 19y ago
the David Deutsch one is very good. also the Aubrey de Grey one.
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by curi 19y ago
i upvote articles after i comment on them and want people to see my comments
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by curi 19y ago
Heh I tricked archive.org and got the first page of the thread i wanted and found: "Part of the problem here, some argue, is a lack of clarity or transparency in those posts, such that people whose views closely correspond to TCS generally
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by curi 19y ago
There are ideas called "Taking Children Seriously" (TCS) and the UP (Unconditional Parenting is a book by Alfie Kohn) forum was closed down to avoid those ideas and the yahoogroup explicitly bans any discussion of TCS -- even when a newbie
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by curi 19y ago
There are severe limitations on how far Alfie Kohn and his following will follow the implications of his ideas. They have gone so far as to ban discussion of certain ideas, basically because parents were too uncomfortable about being asked
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by curi 19y ago
good anime has subtitles
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by curi 19y ago
It's not that you failed exactly -- I thought I got the point. It's just that it's pretty hard to be sure on online forums. Plus I didn't read the article :) What I noticed was you said we should define intelligence in terms of being normal
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by curi 19y ago
a bit out of date. links arc0, and didn't someone already write a unicode support patch? and pg is busy spending his millions? lol maybe that's part of it, but there's also his essays and ycombinator. and arc doesn't exactly force you to us
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by curi 19y ago
is this ironic?
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by curi 19y ago
I'm on your site, and read that section, and it does not tell me what the difference between a 5 and a 15 is. If you want users, don't make them read the paper itself to find out. In other words, it's not obvious what units the numbers are
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by curi 19y ago
Regarding that link, in the "background essay": The first sentence misuses the word "revolutionary". The second sentence misuses the term "all aspects". The third sentence misquotes the general position of string theorists (I think) by misu
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by curi 19y ago
some things some physicists do aren't empirically-based, yes that's correct. whether you call that "science" is a matter of terminology, but the important thing is whether it's high or low quality thinking, and the atmosphere and ethos has
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by curi 19y ago
i know physicists, but i don't know any physicists who act like that. there is a reason physics has been so successful. you haven't explained an alternative for how that happened, besides physicists actually doing something right. though ce
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by curi 19y ago
Oh, then you probably don't know that was a Princess Bride quote. Don't worry about it, nothing too important.
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by curi 19y ago
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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by curi 19y ago
i wouldn't call string theory factually false yet -- that's too controversial, and one shouldn't use the word 'fact' except when it's quite clear. the data about whether physicists act like priests is not controversial so using 'fact' is ok
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by curi 19y ago
Here is the same sort of advice I'd give a web startup: make it really clear what the point is, on the front page. You have a pretty, color picture. Good start. It has a legend which pairs colors to numbers. But what do the numbers mean, in
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by curi 19y ago
The problem with this theory is that it's factually false. Physicists simply do not behave that way. A handful do, but physicists in general are much more principled than most other specialists in other fields, which is why physics has been
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by curi 19y ago
how is that insightful? do what you love? everyone says that. it's well known and lacking detail. good advice is different from insightful advice.
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by curi 19y ago
it's not obvious which way is better. hours spent working isn't a great approximation of productivity, but it is one. if you don't use it, you need to gage productivity in some other way. one way this is done is to agree in advance on a pri
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by curi 19y ago
the same thing happens with hourly rates. known problem.
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by curi 19y ago
that's what everyone else wants. get your own life.
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by curi 19y ago
The Golden Compass movie was really awful. Maybe it's notable that bad movies win Oscars? ;)
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by curi 19y ago
The "No?" was to the downmodders, who were basically saying I'm wrong without giving a counter example. They declared a position. If you're unsure and have no position, that's fine. I don't care if you "go along with my idea". I do care tha

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