roceasta

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by roceasta 9y ago
Let my online persona take the criticism? Yes. My offline persona too. Alan Watts used to point out that even the 'real' persona is only a mask (the word coming from the ancient greek πρόσωπον which originally referred to a theatr
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by roceasta 9y ago
Great that thorium is progressing. I predict the debate about global warming will disappear once we have new power sources in place. Those who denied global warming will suddenly acknowledge it; those who berated the deniers will move on to
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by roceasta 9y ago
I heard about Keen's proposal of a debt jubilee (reducing private debt by random payments into bank accounts) and would be interested to hear criticism of it: http://moneyweek.com/steve-keen-interview-debt-jubilee&#x2
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by roceasta 9y ago
Yes, if you are meditating. However not if you are, say, programming and drinking coffee. The use of the mind while sitting is typically ignored in these studies, I think because it's hard to measure and thus considered subjective and
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by roceasta 9y ago
Fusion progress chart: http://imgur.com/BN0pz
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by roceasta 9y ago
It has been easier. However if present trends continue and new forms of 'badthink' emerge it may be necessary to start looking under stones in dark places. This (a) is hard to do, and (b) presupposes that you know others are out
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by roceasta 9y ago
Yes, labelling a person who disagrees with you Nazi seems like a perverse application of Godwin's Law. It means you are intentionally ending the discussion. Why do it?
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by roceasta 9y ago
I think she's correct to compare our situation now to a primitive band of people. Marshall McLuhan famously called this the global village . Close communication is paradoxically causing the fragmentation and balkanisation of the inter
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by roceasta 9y ago
Some people pay to meditate for days on end! GP about blood clots. Likelihood of clotting also depends on sympathetic arousal: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2629605/ So stimulation arising fr
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by roceasta 9y ago
If sitting is so bad why is meditation considered to be so good an' healthy? http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2014-11-19-ChairSittingGood... My guess is this problem is not to do with sitting per se; it's how your
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by roceasta 9y ago
I think our present space technology research focus should be on these asteroids. Both how to deflect them (peacefully) and how to mine them for rare metals. If I read this table correctly it seems that only eight days ago a fairly chunky r
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by roceasta 9y ago
Not sarcastic. Yes, persuade people they are wrong where they are wrong; learn from them where they are right (we are all fallible). Persuade other people that they are wrong; teach other people where they are right. Plus an unlimited num
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by roceasta 9y ago
Thank goodness we are still able to make the case. The only alternative to free speech is violence. I want to be able to hear what the alt-right has to say, what Islamic extremists have to say, what misogynists have to say, etc.
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by roceasta 9y ago
Exactly. Writers must read 1000s of books, singers must listen to 1000s of songs, and so on. Even for those who don't create additional content, it's impossible to 'consume' culture without creative engagement. Nobody ca
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by roceasta 9y ago
But when it comes to being banned, deplatformed, accused of being in a 'hate group', labelled a Nazi, etc, the problem is the idea that expressing certain opinions indicates that you are a good person.
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by roceasta 9y ago
I'm grateful to share the world with anyone who is trying to think and is brave enough to communicate their ideas in the face of career stagnation. That said, I expect most geniuses are polymaths by conventional standards, whether
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by roceasta 9y ago
I find this fascinating. It's an important biological phenomenon and we don't know if it's due to culture or to chemistry.
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by roceasta 9y ago
>coercive force that encourages people to marry and stay married Not necessarily 'stay married' because for many people there's a financial incentive to get divorced. And you can't get divorced if you don't get m
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by roceasta 9y ago
Exactly. Whereas cooperation between the trees and the pine beetles won't happen because the beetles migrate.
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by roceasta 9y ago
I've come to realise that if I'm run down or hungover or guilty in some way then my mind automatically starts to relive old resentments. I think it's a form of projection. There's a bad feeling internally and so memories
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by roceasta 9y ago
https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/s/samueljohn170103...
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When we hear that we'll know how to program AGI.
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by roceasta 9y ago
Yes. Subjectively speaking it is finding the correct idea, not an unusual one. It's akin to remembering something. You either remember somebody's name or you don't; you don't make up a new one.
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by roceasta 9y ago
No I think that people with extreme egoism genuinely think that loving only themselves is the right thing to do.
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by roceasta 9y ago
Assume positive intent, but set boundaries. The first part sounds like wishful thinking but it merely reflects the fact that there are no bad intentions, only mistaken ideas about what is good. The second part reflects the fact that some pe
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by roceasta 9y ago
The ToS box is a debasement of standards of public discourse. Not only do most individuals knowingly lie, everybody knows that they lie, and they know that everybody knows that they lie, et cetera. It makes me question the legitimacy of m
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by roceasta 9y ago
Point taken that explanations are more important than descriptions but really there are thousands of places that explain the principles of how the internal combustion engine works. This is the first time I've seen an engine physically
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by roceasta 9y ago
Btw to eliminate withdrawal headaches one only needs a small amount of caffeine. I've taken one caffeine pill per day for about a week (~100mg daily depending on brand which is less than one cup of coffee equivalent).
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by roceasta 9y ago
>Plants are able to sense the proximity of neighbors by sensing backscattered far-red (FR) Plants can see ? I had no idea.
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by roceasta 9y ago
If you've solved toxic comments then you've solved AGI.

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