emotionalcode

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by emotionalcode 12y ago
Any advise for a person who had success, then had compound PTSD surface, get mingled with the concept of ego, leading to a negative sorts of ego death, and is still trying as hard as they can to become genius? I can't get the concept o
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
How can you define action? Is it the summation, selection, and order of thoughts leading up the action, or is a web that connects possibly every observation and thought you've had?
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
> If you'll notice, gluons "hang on" to the rest of the particles by merely one interaction. If this interaction was not present, as far as positivists are concerned, then gluons don't exist. But that seems entirely u
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
I did not consider it a good thing, when I had convinced myself and all my opinions to lay at a middle/neutral point where I couldn't select a single one. It made me feel as though I had no sense of self. I studied a bit of Zen wi
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_%28cellular_automaton%29
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
I think the Dunning Kruger effect has been a meme/cultural/conceptual construct long enough (like the measurement of intelligence) that we need to test for a Reverse Dunning Kruger effect, where knowledge of the Dunning Kruger Eff
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
Threatening reprecussion also doesn't stop prejudice, discrimination, or harassment - it just makes it happen behind closed doors or within closed minds. It's the cultural shift of ethics and values that changes things. That'
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
I don't think that particular behavior is any different than how people naturally select and maintain social groups, though. Some level of homogeneity is necessary for discourse (common language), let alone civil discourse. I tend to t
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
> and apparently I'm never going to understand Haskell I found this introduction to the concepts of functional programming (functional composition) to be useful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhuHCtR3xq8 Otherwis
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
My problem isn't with the statistics. My problem is that the law depends on fuzzy bits of information that are easy to rhetorically manipulate in order to direct a case towards (complete and total financial asset seizure, immediately)
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
> He added that making deposits under $10,000 to evade reporting requirements, called structuring, is still a crime whether the money is from legal or illegal sources. I don't understand this. How can anyone know whether what they a
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
I think the author means a person should feel as though they are capable of having privacy, if they desire it, and those outlets should be accessible. That is just my opinion on how I read this statement, though. True autonomy allows you to
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
> here's the value of non rational thought and states of mind. This is plain in art, but generally derided everyone else because of the relationship to antirational arguments, insanity and other persona non grata. There's the a
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
You can also get in the habit of questioning every thought you have. Which is somewhat madness, and can be a very hard habit to break. Making decisions and choices is a tediously slow and cautious process. Building methods of thinking witho
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
I don't know. I like getting close to code, because I like thinking about the people that make each symbol, establish a meaning, weave that into a language, where it is either contextually derived or explicated clearly. I like watching
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
Aesthetics are just as much a matter of taste as they are engineering. A lot of code frankly lends itself to such verbosity/elegance/simplicity/density/readability/(...) because of cultural:personal [preference, ped
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
I think things are a bit different in the age of the internet. Seeing into the private lives of others, their quirks and eccentricities, you might find that these traits are fairly common, and even desirable by certain sociocultural groups
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
I thought it was a lovely simplification of the mechanics of communication and social intelligence. It's also extremely interesting from an artificial intelligence perspective, or even from the perspective of the definition of intellig
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
It begins with assumptions that pretend to take the whole view into context, but do not, as you suggest with the WWII comparison. The side effects are pernicious and systemic. I think the important thing to remember about PTSD and other men
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
Obviously that would imply a system which contains a similar distributive growth that contains the confounding variable and the strong coupling of it to other elements in the whole. Then we could redefine the selection of elements and inter
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
> ...er...yes? I mean, that's why social media sites are popular. They don't have time to think about how that person thinks, but they do have time to search social media sites. > Should society just acclimate itself to be l
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
> The world doesn't have time to explore your mind-palace... But they have time to search social media sites? If someone wants to twist an argument around to attain the goal they desire, you can take anything out of context and spin
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
Of all the things you can objectively measure in the world, I am sure a significant majority would disagree that you can measure love. It is possible to love someone deeply and still separate. The cause of separation might be out of love.
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
> Such people often express their judgments harshly. It's worth remembering that the same harshness inevitably applies to themselves; one doesn't get to handle that acid with gloves. That's just world theory. The real natu
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
No, I am saying that the collective unconscious belief system of a system itself (here, I am calling a collection of humans, or a society - to be a system) is what can direct it. This means all those side thoughts you think you ignore. When
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
Evolution of human culture can either be recognized as a consciously directed emergent property or it can be consciously ignored and instead directed by the unification of unspoken (but existent) belief systems of the majority. Cultural evo
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
For certain definitions of nonsense: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-QoGKj6YQM :)
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
I don't make the assumption that linguistic background is static, only that it is possible that the way in which the language shapes perception can be the cause of disagreement. That is not to say that once this is resolved, linguistic
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
It is an interesting example. Shallow processing is subjective though (the use of the word 'shallow'), as is 'higher level reasoning', or the capacity to derive a layer of meaning from a sequence of characters. It depend
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
> I'll go program video games or something. Or just play them. [post-post-edit[[The funny thing is, I wrote this before reading the last portion of your post. No joke. I'm pretty sure the more our privacy is invaded, the more s

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