erasemus

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by erasemus 9y ago
Because whenever we read something we have to guess the meaning. To the human mind, all communications are inherently contextual and metaphorical. To put it another way each individual has his own internal private language into which ever
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by erasemus 9y ago
Kipple is Sturgeon's Law applied to household objects.
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by erasemus 9y ago
Blancmange and rice pudding? Yes, I'm definitely in favour of adding almonds to those delightful desserts.
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by erasemus 9y ago
Yes they get along with new people and have a large number of shallow relationships. Whereas I think normies and aspies tend to have deeper relationships with only a few people. Btw, they're not aware of their motives -- they don'
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by erasemus 9y ago
Agreed.
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by erasemus 9y ago
My predictably unpopular theory is that highly social people are really afraid of other people. Perhaps not without reason if one regards other humans as potential predators. So they designate a group of people friends and use it as pro
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by erasemus 9y ago
Conservative in the sense of conserving existing knowledge and technology; not to try out new ideas. >This is a version of 'technological determinism' True, the growth of technology can't be predicted. There's no g
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by erasemus 9y ago
Civilisation is a Red Queen; we must keep running just to stand still. Maintaining and conserving things is the job of conservatives, not entrepreneurs, and conservatives resist change. Indeed most changes are detrimental. Yet in the long
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by erasemus 9y ago
it’s meaningless to say human society had made progress without stating areas that you’re considering and not considering when it comes to assessing such progress Is it meaningless to say that some areas are more worthy of consideration t
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by erasemus 9y ago
Staying at home with children is marvellous. Interactions with adult friends are staid and stereotypical by comparison. Plus with the internet one has access to the world's knowledge. Any boredom is therefore one's own problem. &
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by erasemus 9y ago
Yes and the mere fact of reading doesn't imply an engagement with the content, which can't be forced. One can imagine hearing the words of one hundred audiobooks playing at 1.5x speed in the background, but, like an inane radio
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by erasemus 9y ago
>Explaining all the rules is what school is for, basically. Heh. My school published a list of rules which included: 'Any breach of common sense is also a breach of school rules.'
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by erasemus 9y ago
>Debate and negotiation are not games that I anticipate enjoying Yes and I think that's because they entail criticism, which is used to attack ideas and people we don't like. Whereas creating something worthwhile is about d
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by erasemus 9y ago
Problem acknowledged, though revealed preferences show that humans do value phenotypic traits, and those preferences may be controlled by objective ideas. Actually my main reservation about the word 'dysgenic' would be that '
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by erasemus 9y ago
The 'moral fad' I was referring to was what took place in protestant Slovakia beginning in the 1800s, not about human fertility/fecundity today. From the article: >In XIX. century the trend of having a single child took h
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by erasemus 9y ago
Wow that's well below replacement fertility. Also dysgenic since intelligent and responsible people are more likely to follow the moral fad. For me it demonstrates the importance of obeying my conscience and not caring what neighbour
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by erasemus 9y ago
>there's a huge psychological burden that comes with living for a long time What is the burden? A burden I foresee is that people are going to have to choose between life extension and assisted suicide.
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by erasemus 9y ago
I skimmed the article again and didn't find any obvious equivocations regarding IQ and intelligence. But, regardless of this, I think solving problems requires creativity , not intelligence. Creativity seems to be independent of knowi
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by erasemus 9y ago
Why can't they be the same thing? All my experience is processed information (see my other comment in this thread about qualia [1]); information processing requires hardware; the hardware is the brain. My report of my experiences is
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by erasemus 9y ago
I'm worried there's a taboo developing where only professionals or mentally ill people themselves are allowed to express any kind of opinion about mental illness or the mentally ill.
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by erasemus 9y ago
>It starts by claiming that there is no such thing as general intelligence. What specialized intelligence, then, is human intelligence? I think there are two usages of the term 'general intelligence' floating around: (1) the
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by erasemus 9y ago
I like his argument in the middle section of howcome IQ predicts income or social status despite the fact that general intelligence doesn't exist. It seems to me that the categories of 'knowledge' and 'creativity' a
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by erasemus 9y ago
Your first experience illustrates neatly my thoughts about the article. The 'cacophony of noises, specific images' (which you refer to) were generated by the 'fast, efficient, non-conscious systems in [your] brain' (whic
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by erasemus 9y ago
IMO the scandal here with these triangular containers is the 'three slice' sandwich, for example: https://img.tesco.com/Groceries/pi/441/5051140265441/IDShot_... The naive customer felt that he
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by erasemus 9y ago
Check out Paul Robinson's comment for a general refutation. Given the popularity of 'artisanal'-type portable food preparations in both the UK and the US I think it unlikely the market could get away with such standards even
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by erasemus 9y ago
Yes but no one claimed advertising was 'driven by a democratic process'. Marxists keep telling people what they want, and of course lying to them, even as the bodies are piling up. At the centenary of Russian Revolution, with 50
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by erasemus 9y ago
>require major changes driven by the democratic process Marxists tell people what's best for everyone; they don't do what people want.
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by erasemus 9y ago
Those Easter Island Statues: did building them help to keep the islanders sane or was it merely a shocking waste of time and resources? (serious question). When the final crisis hit, did they see the problem and grapple with it or did the
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by erasemus 9y ago
>Actually, there's a bit of 'fire' here, not just smoke. I think humanities people are better at appearing humane but the paradoxical truth is that if you look at the average English Department you won't find a hive
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by erasemus 9y ago
A countervailing authority: Why keep kids away from tech they will create their lives with? Creative, not passive. It's like keeping our generation away from pencils. -- Garry Kasparov

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