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by moosey 6y ago
Recently, I have become a proponent of Non-violent communication. Further, I have spent a lot of time trying to understand narcissism and gaslighting, and the abusive language tied to it. Understanding their use, and why they are used, ha
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by moosey 6y ago
I completely agree. I believe that social media algorithms should be declared illegal human psychological experimentation. Anything other than supplying a dumb pipe or obvious and simple mathematical explanations (for instance, a calendar)
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by moosey 6y ago
Racism is not in our hearts - it's in our brains. A combination of in/out group bias, categorization error, inductive thinking and belief perserverance. Understanding these cognitive errors, and yes, that most decision making pr
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by moosey 6y ago
I recently read "The Organized Mind". I didn't expect it to be a book on ethics, but it certainly did impact me that way, and caused me to alter an enormous number of faulty mental behaviors, and allowed me to see abuse in l
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by moosey 6y ago
Hackers should be interested in this. It's clear that social media has a hand in the current state of society, however you feel about it. I have a sense that people that don't want violence are going to win politically, and soon
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by moosey 6y ago
> Politics is a team based sport. That's optional though. The modern media, in the interest of money, has done a good job of causing the population of the US to miscategorize themselves into D/R. If it instead focused on huma
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by moosey 6y ago
Effectively, there is no difference between an apple and one with a bruise. I still get the same nutrition and taste, most other differences being unimportant. A jacket with a hole has massive loss of effectiveness, and I don't receiv
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by moosey 6y ago
I don't blame anyone. I want the world to evolve into one where our society puts human welfare first. Blaming does not help that happen at all. It is easy to get caught in a trap thinking heavily about money. When thinking about thi
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by moosey 6y ago
Technocrats? Business leaders are selected at random by our economy, or are born wealthy. This has been proven over and over in studies. Your flowery language is designed so that you feel smart. The fact that you started the first senten
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by moosey 6y ago
You are exalting ignorance. That's what actually needs to stop.
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by moosey 6y ago
There is an entire section of "the organized mind" centering on decision making. I am reading many things here that are discussed and explained from a cognitive psychology viewpoint in the book. I can't recommend it enough.
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by moosey 6y ago
Collect the definitions that you are learning over time. Put them in Anki as multidirection cloze deletions. Then, just do your Anki deck each day. You will find that your fluency in almost any subject is improved with this practice.
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by moosey 6y ago
The stock market is perfectly representing, well, something. Any attempts to explain it require loads of mental gymnastics because it's a layer of abstraction over so many layers of abstraction that I fear we've collectively lost
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by moosey 6y ago
Reduction in the cost of oil will also reduce the cost of expanding renewable energy. Along with social distancing that might last a year, I wouldn't be surprised if we didn't reach the level of oil consumption from 2019 ever aga
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by moosey 6y ago
In response to that previous comment, it should be noted that by using Anki daily, you will increase blood flow and connectivity in the hippocampus region. In turn, this will increase the amount of things that you can learn in a time perio
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by moosey 6y ago
I just take handwritten notes, then convert them into carefully designed and tagged cards in Anki. Even if I forget something, searching my Anki deck will usually not just tell me the information, but what book it came from, and often whic
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by moosey 6y ago
If you want to stop wasting your time, and want to learn something thoroughly and once, I would recommend learning how to use Anki effectively. It has reduced the amount of time it takes to learn new things, while simultaneously allowing m
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by moosey 6y ago
What's the point of supporting the current economic model if it doesn't support human welfare? What's the point of any of our abstractions if they don't serve human welfare? I'm totally in agreement with you. The p
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by moosey 6y ago
> Mankind improves because systems become big, rigid, and unable to evolve. People come along and point that out, suggesting various theories about how those systems got that way, the reasons why they are wrong, and offering suggestions
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by moosey 6y ago
I believe the next advancements not to be technological. A combination of neuroscience and cognitive psychology can alter the human fabric of society in various directions. For an example of this, we can look at media produced in the Unit
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by moosey 6y ago
Ideas are easy to find, it's just that the bounds that we have been limited to work within, both economically and societally, have become tighter and tighter. Today, the leadership of the vast majority of private institutions have onl
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by moosey 6y ago
> Krajbich said the results of this study suggest that many times we will take the route that worked yesterday and ignore the evidence of what normally works best. I think that this is an example of "Denominator Neglect" I read
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by moosey 6y ago
It alarms me that so many people look at the series of decisions, including the Supreme Court decision, and will argue 'yeah, this is fine'. Sending people out in these cities was an ethical failure of enormous proportions, and th
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by moosey 7y ago
I don't think that contemporary, high emotional arousal misinformation sources are harmless. I contend instead that the feeling of superiority and constant novelty of conspiracy theories lead to a dopamine-addiction loop. Since novel
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by moosey 7y ago
You are comparing subjective predictions and mathematically modeled predictions. They are not the same thing. We have enormous amounts of mathematical modelling and a vast history of information about our atmospheric history. Using this,
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by moosey 7y ago
I'm married with two children and I can assure you that not only has my mental state slipped because of the stresses of home life, but I also lost an enormous amount of social activity that I intentionally maintained in order to keep m
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by moosey 7y ago
After this is over, the saddest possible outcome is if America returns to the same systems, having learned nothing. I don't expect it at all, but I've been more surprised in the past.
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by moosey 7y ago
Our leaders, both business and government, find themselves entrapped in thinking about economics in terms of money. Soon we will be thinking about it in terms of productivity: how do we make sure enough food is made and distributed? How d
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by moosey 7y ago
At the end of one of Harari's books he points out that nothing that we see today is natural or inevitable: that there are infinite outcomes for the way that humanity lives and organizes itself. Proof of this can be seen in how we&#x27
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by moosey 7y ago
> I wish people like you understood economy. What I understand is that we have decided that one particular measurement, GDP, has been taken to be more valuable than all other measurements. Such as, but not limited to, human welfare. It&#

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