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by n4r9 9mo ago
What do you mean by "going along with" ? Just that it sounds suspiciously like agreeing with an opinion, rather than accepting a feeling.
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This is a bit of a difficult stance to take if, like me, you don't think that there is an objective good or an objective moral status.
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You use the word "react" in an ambiguous way; I'm never sure if you mean the emotional response, the subsequent thoughts, or the subsequent behaviour. The latter two we have much more control over, whilst the first must be tr
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by n4r9 9mo ago
> That's not the definition the others are using For what it's worth, imo this is included in the definition of "accepting" someone's feelings. You are saying "it is acceptable" to have the feelings.
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I think their definition of valid is consistently aligning with the meaning of "acknowledging and accepting someone's internal experience". As soon as you start trying to apply normative judgements to someone's feelings,
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by n4r9 9mo ago
Thanks, you've put this in clearer and more concrete terms than I've been able to.
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> Working with young children is another good way to observe that not every emotional reaction is acceptable. I have a two year old son and disagree with this. I wonder if you're using the phrase "overreaction" to mean bot
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by n4r9 9mo ago
Yes, I'd agree with that. The way I think of it is that emotions are somewhat "mechanistic". I don't directly control them, but they follow certain principles. For example, fear often arises in response to a perceived th
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by n4r9 9mo ago
I quite like the definition on Wikipedia: > Emotional validation is a process which involves acknowledging and accepting another individual's inner emotional experience, without necessarily agreeing with or justifying it, and possib
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It can be a challenging skill to apply, and you need to use your judgement to discern whether the other person is in a place to engage with what you say. One comment I'd make is the difference between "valid" and "ration
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I've heard that's true; compassion and empathy can be a draw for highly insecure people. You need to balance it with assertiveness and self-regulation, which are also part of emotional intelligence.
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I wrote a long answer, but I realised that even advanced C users are unlikely to have memorised every possible value of errno and what they all mean when fopen errors. There's just no point as you can easily look it up. You can underst
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by n4r9 9mo ago
I frame it not as turning a dial down, but as switching channel from practical problem-solver to emotional problem-solver. Often when someone wants to talk about a situation involving difficult feelings, they're actually trying to proc
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by n4r9 9mo ago
Huh, TIL [0]. Thanks. There are people who can perform extraordinary memory feats, but they're very rare and/or self-trained. [0] https://skeptoid.com/episodes/542
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by n4r9 9mo ago
One potential answer is that this tests more heavily for the ability to memorise, as opposed to understanding. My last exams were over ten years ago and I was always good at them because I have a good medium-term memory for names and number
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by n4r9 9mo ago
As I understand it, it's still our best candidate for a unified theory of everything. Not for lack of effort in researching alternatives, either.
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by n4r9 9mo ago
According to their own blog [0], Opera implemented tabs in 2000. The earliest version of what became Firefox was released as "Phoenix" in 2002 [1]. Phoenix was renamed to Firebird in 2003 and again to Firefox in 2004 [2], in both
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by n4r9 9mo ago
I suspect you are right, but I don't think it's all as obvious as you make out. I still don't see why - in principle - any of that cannot be achieved by a so-called "agentic" LLM with goals and feedback mechanisms.
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One question is how do you know that you (or humans in general) aren't also just applying statistical language rules, but are convincing yourself of some underlying narrative involving logical rules? I don't know the answer to thi
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> The government would actually need to infiltrate the network in order to read the conversations If I understand correctly, this would still be true if the recipient is connected.
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by n4r9 9mo ago
This sounds different to airplane mode: > hardware switch that physically disconnects your microphone, camera and Bluetooth When switched on it's impossible for your phone to listen to your conversation and send the data to some com
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by n4r9 9mo ago
Fun fact: Opera had a tab functionality before Firefox. In fact a little-known browser called InternetWorks from the 90s is thought to be the first that had them.
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It comes across as patronising; as if you think they're a sweet naive airhead that needs informing.
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In which case your original question doesn't make sense. The annual alcohol consumption in those countries is around 11 litres of pure alcohol per person. The only Balkan country coming close to that is Bulgaria.
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by n4r9 9mo ago
I weigh pasta on the scales pretty much every time I cook it. That way you know pretty accurately how many calories you're consuming. I don't think I'd use this because it looks less accurate.
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I don't think this detracts from OP's point.
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Has anyone even studied the effect of forcing ten year olds to drink a daily litre of vodka?
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It feels like there's some glossing-over and circular logic here: > Yes children show poorer impulse control than adults. But aren’t we all somewhat helpless in the face of the mighty tech companies? The fact that adults can also ha
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It strikes me as an over-simplification. What about doctors, therapists, firefighters, teachers, bricklayers, scientists etc... ?
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It is critical. Done well, it motivates people. Some managers are better at it than others; some are great at it. Such managers are actually motivating rather employees rather than avoiding demotivation.

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