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by dmn322 3y ago
We do know that stimulating the right temporal lobe with electrodes causes auditory hallucinations. This is the same area that is responsible for actual speech processing on the left side. We also know that the left side wernicke and broca
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by dmn322 3y ago
I'm not saying I agree with his hypothesis, but I admire its craziness. He's well aware that it's out there, and he makes some pretty compelling points... doing a pretty thorough analysis of the earliest available literature
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by dmn322 3y ago
Polynesians brought sweet potatoes from South America by around 1000 ce, so it’s reasonable to suspect this was true before the 1400s.
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by dmn322 3y ago
The baghdad batteries are nothing compared to the antikythera mechanism, which comes from a similar time frame. This timeframe is after Jayne's hypothesized breakdown of the bicameral mind, though, so it's not quite the same. Jay
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by dmn322 3y ago
Jaynes says the concept of self derived from linguistic metaphor. Until there was a concept of the “mind” as a container that could have thoughts “in” it, he says thoughts were experienced as hallucinations from the right temporal lobe, and
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by dmn322 3y ago
It’s not great. There are ~2 broad categories of language based on their use of affixes: analytic (which doesn’t make much use of affixes, instead relying on word order), and synthetic (which does use affixes). Synthetic has multiple sub-c
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by dmn322 3y ago
It’s missing Sturgill Simpson’s “cuttin’ grass”
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by dmn322 3y ago
You're stating something that's obviously your opinion as if it's fact, so I'm not particularly interested in discussing with you either. None of what you just said directly addresses what I intended to communicate. Nob
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by dmn322 3y ago
IMO, this could be discussed so much more rigorously... I think we have the framework for it. All work exploits some gradient of energy, i.e. a potential difference. Any "innovation" is a discovery of some such gradient. As the
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by dmn322 3y ago
I don't think that's the case across the wallace line... could be wrong.
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by dmn322 3y ago
My impression is that Indonesian people aren't under any delusions that the country matches any specific historical borders. They're well aware that their country's borders are a product of colonization. That said, it seems
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by dmn322 3y ago
Then the roman empire would have been led by someone slightly different and perhaps had slightly different borders. > who is far less capable of setting up the infrastructure of the empire This is where we diverge.. I consider setting up
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by dmn322 3y ago
> There were a lot of unique features of Muhammad that ending up having a major positive effect on the subsequent conquests I'm not sure I buy it... I just don't think things hinge so delicately on individuals. Generally if on
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by dmn322 3y ago
I'm against great man theory as well. I'm responding to what you said here: "does all progress grind to a halt once the guy dies? Do we have a lot of examples of that?" with a pretty glaring example of what you're
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by dmn322 3y ago
psychohistory is from "the foundation" and last time I checked is fictional. If someone has a new theory of sociology which they've named after the field in the book, you might link it and introduce it as if it's a new
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by dmn322 3y ago
After alexander the great, greek kingdoms were left scattered along the path he went, some lasting for 100s of years. IMO he spread a system of logistics and trade required to sustain armies over that many thousands of miles, which was als
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by dmn322 3y ago
But this is simply due to government policy limiting the amount of money they were throwing at the project. So you're advocating for "great incentives theory"
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by dmn322 3y ago
"I think you would have a very difficult time arguing that history wouldn't have been drastically different if say, Muhammad the individual hadn't made the decisions he did." Would it make you feel differently if you kne
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by dmn322 3y ago
My alternative viewpoint is based on incentives. Money causes physical work to be done. It influences probability distributions. F = ma. A certain amount of money can only cause so much dirt to be hauled up a hill with a certain probabi
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by dmn322 3y ago
https://spacechimplife.com/theories-of-historical-change/
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by dmn322 3y ago
IMO the #1 biggest most important problem is the design of institutions. Specifically we need to design institutions that can accept higher information throughput from their members. This applies to corporations, governments, academia, etc
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by dmn322 3y ago
I'd also add: - Define a very clear target. Include quantities. If the goal is "speed up the api endpoint"... measure the current performance and define a target. The goal must become tangible and measurable in an objective
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by dmn322 3y ago
I agree that there are much worse ways that corporations can be scummy. This is pretty low on the list of priorities compared to environmental destruction, funding warlords, etc. Also, I agree that people don't have a right to infini
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by dmn322 3y ago
True, and even in the case of larger corporations, they can act with a little humanity when they have a strong leader with lots of leeway.. but then they don't get the scaling benefits of relying on systematic policy and can make more
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by dmn322 3y ago
I don't think they screw up in human ways though. That's not a human way. A human freelancer or friend wouldn't get away with just ghosting like that after promising something. They would have to own up and face the music.
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by dmn322 3y ago
1) it's not people, it's a company. They're 2 different things. People have consciences and families. Companies are beholden to shareholders. People can find a different job if their company fails. I don't think we n
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by dmn322 3y ago
"that is, TupleSpace won't work on the Internet, precisely because of its underlying "distributed shared memory" idea". anyone know why?
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Theories of Historical Change(spacechimplife.com)
1 points by dmn322 3y ago|0 comments
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Information and the Income Gap(spacechimplife.com)
1 points by dmn322 3y ago|0 comments
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Hard Conway's Law(spacechimplife.com)
3 points by dmn322 3y ago|0 comments

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