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mybandisbetter
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mybandisbetter
6y ago
This is also a big concept in the medical world. There's an influential report on this from the 90s called "To Err is Human." https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25077248/
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mybandisbetter
6y ago
It is at least possible that a manufacturing ecosystem would be so difficult to develop that it would require fewer decades to transport products than to develop that ecosystem. Such comparative advantage would likely disappear overtime, un
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While it is true that exercise cannot solve excessive calorie consumption (since exercising makes us eat more), it is important for weight management. A lack of exercise screws with the body's feedback loops, undermining its "meta
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mybandisbetter
6y ago
I've often thought that "the speed of causality" would be a much better name for it. Interesting you landed on the same.
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There's another problem with being obsessed with concision: it's more compatible with simple ideas than nuanced ideas. I work at a place where I'm required to explain urban planning issues while using the simplest-possible su
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mybandisbetter
6y ago
I could give you my email address if you would like to discuss further. There is lots of good research on all of this.
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In addition to being a quality human in these ways, I'd recommend googling "tactical urbanism." That means: do quick, low-cost interventions in your neighbourhood, like painting a mural on the street, building flower boxes, o
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“We observed for the first time that the electron shell in a molecule does not react to light everywhere at the same time." Question: does this not violate the "quantum" in quantum physics? I thought that a quantum particle h
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Ha, right, perhaps I hallucinated separately the image and the emotion that it is beautiful. My guess (just a guess) is that the images were themselves generated by the parts of the brain that register beauty, and so were beautiful by defin
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Personally, doing mushrooms helped me work out some stuff for my PhD thesis research. What he says about making your brain more plastic is the key point. I thought about things from a new angle, which directly informs my current research. I