enkid

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811.
by enkid 6y ago
First, their interpretation of I/E is not the same that the Big5 label it. The Big 5 also don't look at it as binary. I'm also not sure how to interpret your System 1 vs System 2 comment, as thats also not binary. Everyone u
812.
by enkid 6y ago
It sounds just enough like science for people to pay a lot of money for it, but not enough like science that it scares anyone. Of course, it's pretty much bullshit for many reasons.
813.
by enkid 6y ago
MBTI is literally called psuedoscience and bullshit on the Wikipedia page. It may have nothing to do with you.
814.
by enkid 6y ago
I have a hard time believing most people would willingly use a system that pointed out their own inconsistencies. That's the type of thing people need to discover themselves, and tend to get hostile if it's not handled very delic
815.
by enkid 6y ago
I guess the only people who need to whiten their teeth right now are anti-maskers.
816.
by enkid 6y ago
People being less adapted to specific environments is not the same thing as being less diverse.
817.
by enkid 6y ago
You don't necessarily have any DNA from any particular ancestor, but they would be your ancestor. This is explained in the article I linked. That means that if everybody's ancestors converged in 5500 BC, and at least one person
818.
by enkid 6y ago
If they are remanants in people's DNA, they did become common ancestors, no? Everyone's family tree collapses to the same individuals at 5500 BC, after the other humans went extinct.(1) That means we are all descended from non H
819.
by enkid 6y ago
I don't think that genetic diversity will necessarily slow under those conditions. Genetic differences between people are already dominated by individual genetic differences over group genetic differences. Our diversity is more about
820.
by enkid 6y ago
Make it less like to show something if the further the connection is from the individual. By default don't show every like or retweet, only do it if you are relatively close to the original source? Dampen the viralness if the post by
821.
by enkid 6y ago
The visible universe is finite and the visible universe is the only thing that can affect us. I believe that would make it apply.
822.
by enkid 6y ago
I thought the problem had some limited applications. Wasn't it something like modeling the quantum states of hydrogen?
823.
by enkid 6y ago
This is actually one of those things experts are very bad at. Experts make good predictions when they have feedback about those predictions. There is no feedback about this kind of prediction, so experts would be very bad.
824.
by enkid 6y ago
Looks like an interesting paper. In fact, it looks like it's saying basically the same thing I'm saying, we really don't know enough to make assertions about the likelihood of finding intelligent life at this point.
825.
by enkid 6y ago
There are multiple areas of the Drake equation that we have either no or only one data point on: - Number of planets that can support life that will develop life - Number of planets that have developed life that will develop intelligent lif
826.
by enkid 6y ago
Gravity waves would still have similar issues. The only gravity waves we can pick up right now are from extremely dense bodies colliding with each other. Not exactly a feasible means for intergalactic communication.
827.
by enkid 6y ago
IIRC, we wouldn't be able to pick up our own broadcasts from Alpha Centauri because of the loss of radio transmission power. I doubt we would know if an alien civilization was transmitting at us, even if it was trying to get our atten
828.
by enkid 6y ago
Well, to pick some nits, if radio waves didn't work the same way, that would be a pretty fundamental shift in physics, to the point of throwing all our assumptions out the window about our observational evidence.
829.
by enkid 6y ago
Does the Drake equation really strongly suggest there is other life? It seems to me there are still so many unknown variables that we can't make that determination at this point. Sure, some people have some intuition about it, but int
830.
by enkid 6y ago
You can have bonuses for things like special skills or location pay.
831.
by enkid 6y ago
I'm agreeing with him.
832.
by enkid 6y ago
Totally agree.
833.
by enkid 6y ago
Aren't most SSH probes trying to break weak passwords? If so, having a strong password is much much more important than the port SSH is on.
834.
by enkid 6y ago
The problem is when you only use security by obscurity. Just changing then port does not do enough to make your insecure application secure. For example, if you have a Windows 2000 server on the internet, it doesn't matter what port
835.
by enkid 6y ago
But would those classical paintings be as famous if his earlier work wasn't? Probably not.
836.
by enkid 6y ago
The funny thing is that the theory of evolution is an instance of multiple discoverers, one is just much more famous than the other. Alfred Russel Wallace is "the other guy." There are a few examples of truly heroic discoveries, b
837.
by enkid 6y ago
But that's comparing apples to oranges. You're defining society "nowadays" as being hundreds of millions of people, and society "back then" as having only two hundred people. That's like complaining that
838.
by enkid 6y ago
You can't make a broad statement like that. In most places, for most times, people have been pretty passive. The mass of people being involved is the exception, not the rule, and even then, it normally was not a majority, but a local
839.
by enkid 6y ago
I totally agree. I like rereading Terry Pratchett books because I enjoy them. I reread philosophy books because I want to remember the arguments and get a new perspective on the work based on new experience. I read books about physics, b
840.
by enkid 6y ago
Some weird geometry where space is curved into a four dimensional sphere. The sphere gets bigger, adding space between all the points. If the sphere is exactly the size of the observable universe, then the observable universe and universe

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