danielam

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Your brain on pseudoscience: the rise of popular neurobollocks (2012)(newstatesman.com)
9 points by danielam 9y ago|1 comments
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by danielam 9y ago
I'm glad you introduced this term vis-a-vis counting. I would distinguish between the experiencing/perceiving a quantity/magnitude of something (e.g., proportional to some stimulus) and the abstract apprehension or quantifica
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This psychologist’s “gaydar” research makes us uncomfortable. That’s the point(vox.com)
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How the European Union Became Divided on Russia(geopoliticalfutures.com)
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The Tyranny of Simple Explanations (2016)(theatlantic.com)
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by danielam 9y ago
If I'm being charitable, whenever I read headlines like "AI beats humans at reading comprehension", I interpret the headline as part sensational, part tongue in cheek. I am, however, surprised that to this day, people actuall
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Animals are conscious. In other news, sky is blue, water wet. (2012)(edwardfeser.blogspot.com)
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GM wants to ditch the manual controls from its test cars in 2019(arstechnica.com)
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by danielam 9y ago
I would emphasize one background assumption, viz., the importance of the respect for and appreciation of truth. Otherwise, we slip into sophistry where we are less interested in truth and more interested in deploying words as weapons and in
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Capturing Warsaw at the Dawn of World War II (2010)(smithsonianmag.com)
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Digital stereoscopic reconstruction of Warsaw during World War II (2012)(behance.net)
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The Fallen of World War II – Data-driven documentary about war and peace (2015)(fallen.io)
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by danielam 9y ago
The view more or less described by the article probably has its (most recent, at least) origin in Descartes. Cartesian metaphysics posits two kinds of things in the universe, namely, mind and matter. Mind is associated with thought, desire,
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by danielam 9y ago
If you mean "kobieta", from what I understand, it used to be offensive until about the 19th century, but the etymology of it is unclear and contested. I have no idea by what process it ceased to be offensive.
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Program Synthesis Explained (2015)(homes.cs.washington.edu)
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Inconvenient Truths About Migration (2017)(project-syndicate.org)
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Is goodness natural?(aeon.co)
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The interstellar story of the strangest stone ever found(newatlas.com)
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The Truth about Men, Women, and Sex(thepublicdiscourse.com)
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The Real Question: Can Philosophy Be Saved? (2017)(academia.edu)
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Armchair science (2017)(aeon.co)
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Che, Stalin, Mussolini and the Thinkers Who Loved Them(nationalinterest.org)
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Jerry Fodor’s Enduring Critique of Neo-Darwinism (2017)(newyorker.com)
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by danielam 9y ago
Yes, but I'm not contesting the renaming. The way its phrased led me to expect that all of the days were renamed after his family members. Perhaps an ambiguity. Also, can you confirm that clocks must bear his likeness? I've seen a
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by danielam 9y ago
"In neighboring Turkmenistan, President Saparmurat Niyazov — a despot who requires all clocks to bear his likeness and renamed the days of the week after his family [...]" I'm pretty sure both claims are false.
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by danielam 9y ago
I agree. It's a good start, but very basic.
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Applying McLuhan’s Tetrad to the Smartphone (2016)(glocality.eu)
35 points by danielam 9y ago|7 comments
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by danielam 9y ago
> Maybe in the past, as specialized workers? My grandmother had some interesting encounters with Roma when she was younger. Apparently, the only time people locked their doors in town was when the Roma caravans rolled through (otherwise,
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by danielam 9y ago
"It is small contribution to the vast corpus of complaints about what happens to product design when an engineer’s focus on problem solving blinds them to the norms of social interaction." Product design is part of engineering. Go
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by danielam 9y ago
A couple points. First, I did not claim that the experience of things or even consciousness require appeals to anything immaterial or non-physical. I merely said that a Cartesian materialism as a metaphysical position cannot explain these t

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