erasmuse

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by erasmuse 9y ago
>What would change your mind? Something like historical examples of fundamental breakthroughs in science or great works of art produced by committee. Criticism is for stuff one doesn't like, which is why it belongs firmly in the
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by erasmuse 9y ago
I don't have a dog in this fight but surely neither the government nor anyone else gets to define what ordinary English words mean.
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by erasmuse 9y ago
I doubt it. New ideas develop slowly and can't be communicated or explained until they are ready. If you look at creative intellectuals they work alone or, rarely, in pairs. Discussion to the point of resolution would be more like poli
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by erasmuse 9y ago
I suspect the answer will turn out to be the same for food and alcohol: have periodic breaks from both to allow the body to recover. In the case of food this is now called intermittent fasting but it applies to both. In particular to allo
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by erasmuse 9y ago
>Some people are just attracted to the crazy unknown Yes. "Find what you love and let it kill you" somebody said. And most people don't feel safe unless they're living fearfully close to the edge of what is possible
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by erasmuse 9y ago
>Don't forget the scene where the rabbit warren is gassed. Good point and you're not the first to point this out to me today. I may have to amend my thesis...
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by erasmuse 9y ago
Yes, our understanding gets more refined the more we learn. It remains messy, error-prone and incomplete. So the solution can never be to learn things 'well' or get things right first time or produce perfect teachers/videos o
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by erasmuse 9y ago
The 1978 movie adaptation is superb and deeply memorable. Voices actors include the great John Hurt and Richard Briers. Here's a taste: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGyQmH9NZcw There's at least one thing about
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by erasmuse 9y ago
Shouldn't you begin your sentences with capital letters? :-)
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by erasmuse 9y ago
We want to explore the solar system... and there are these marvellous parcels of kinetic energy and expensive rare earth elements whizzing around the place. With built-in radiation shielding, too. OK, at least one of the bigguns is pointing
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by erasmuse 9y ago
>do they also share common memories? Indeed! The way I see it, identity derives from memory. So to the extent (if any) that they share identical memories they are strictly the same person . Beyond that I would guess there may be som
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by erasmuse 9y ago
No no. The routine is a space for unstructured improvement. Nor is there such a thing as repetition in learning. Every attempt at gaining skill is at least slightly different and is made under at least slightly different conditions. Pro
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by erasmuse 9y ago
Well, alternative medicine that actually works is usually re-labelled medicine. e.g. vaccines are thought to have had origins in China way before the scientific revolution. An exception is the Alexander Technique (AT), which I think cured m
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by erasmuse 9y ago
Humans mostly don't eat sweet stuff for calorific or nutritional purposes. Rather I think they enjoy puddings, cakes, chocolate, and so on, for psychological reasons (comfort, pleasure) as well as for cultural reasons. So my question r
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by erasmuse 9y ago
Sure but I could be reading even further ahead if I didn't have to carefully trace the horizontal line from a tied note (to see if it stays on the same level or if it jumps to another note). On the other hand if it were, say, a thick
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by erasmuse 9y ago
What should humans have instead of sugar?
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by erasmuse 9y ago
I think modern musical notation could be improved by making a more readily apparent distinction between phrase marks and tied notes. As it is one often has to read ahead on a tied note to see if is tied or not, which costs attention.
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by erasmuse 9y ago
Yes. We are irrational in rearing and educating human children for example. Sandboxing. Is it like this? http://www.ptaugustacsc.sa.edu.au/images/sandpit.jpg Or like this? https://s3.amazonaws.com/audre
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by erasmuse 9y ago
>Imagine being in a software team and disregarding what others are doing? I think the application of 'disregard others' to this case would be to ignore what other software teams working on the same problem are doing.
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by erasmuse 9y ago
What I mean is that intelligence and creativity are independent of each other and since most people don't make significant contributions to culture then neither do most intelligent people.
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by erasmuse 9y ago
Intelligence and creativity are also divorced from one another. Unlike Newton, da Vinci, Einstein, most intelligent people aren't creative in the cultural sense. Their creativity is rather directed towards fitting in more effectively a