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by sandspar 3y ago
The more free time I have, the more I'm convinced that "idle hands are the devil's plaything" is one of our more accurate aphorisms. Considered in total, I'm far less ethical when I have time to myself than when I&#
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by sandspar 3y ago
For what it's worth, during my psychology courses in university, I witnessed professors lie to the class, sometimes in response to direct questions. The topics were things that psychology professors would surely know, so I don't t
903.
by sandspar 3y ago
Bingo!
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by sandspar 3y ago
It'd be weird if it turned out that it is an alien aircraft and... that's it. It's too advanced for us to understand, it's too high tech. And we're left with, "Yup, aliens exist. No, we don't know anything
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by sandspar 3y ago
I've found that early retirement tends to be bad for people who have the combination of "high need for achievement" and also akrasia (the condition of being occasionally weak willed). If you are someone who has a mismatch bet
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by sandspar 3y ago
I learned a lot about why Maslow's hierarchy is a pyramid. I had unending amounts of discretionary time, so I could spend hours and hours focusing on self-actualization. The problem was that, without work, I had no real spur to focus o
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by sandspar 3y ago
I know a plumber who keeps his phone ringer on all night so he can wake up and go on calls. He's in his 30's and his knees are as damaged as an 80 year old man's. Try telling him that automation and technology should be reduc
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by sandspar 3y ago
I had the good luck to be able to semi-retire in my early 20's. It sucked. I was constantly stressed, constantly anxious. The smaller my problems became, the larger the apparatus my mind would form to deal with them. I went back to sch
909.
by sandspar 3y ago
When I was sick with a condition whose symptoms precluded me from being aware that I was sick, I yet had a vague awareness that something was wrong. I ended up talking to an academic adviser at my university, who had the insight to transfer
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by sandspar 3y ago
My pro-tipping comment on Reddit broke my record for most down votes ever. It's kind of cute that, even in a highly polarized environment where every comment has high stakes, we still have issues where people can simply be disgruntled.
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by sandspar 4y ago
Let's all put our heads together and dredge up more obscure Twitter communities to malign Musk.
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by sandspar 4y ago
What a titillating thought, how much more skillful and deep we are than all those people!
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by sandspar 4y ago
Two teams of elves were told to make a simple toy. One team used a special tool, and the toy they made was much better. If Santa saw this, wouldn't he probably encourage his elves to use the special tool on more complex toys?
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by sandspar 4y ago
I assume that at their level, the actual number is less important than their level of agency. When they want to get something done, who is more likely to be able to make it happen?
915.
by sandspar 4y ago
France hasn't spent the last 60 years building their tourist and media complex around living royals. Sure, France does fine with museums alone. Would England? Maybe. Maybe not.
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by sandspar 4y ago
Wouldn't the people at the Pentagon already have thought of this?
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by sandspar 6y ago
"Every movement has fugheads, and the fugheads will get all the press." Can't remember who said or how the quote goes. (Any help? Some kind of eponymous law?)
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by sandspar 6y ago
It's interesting that he highlights and bolds "tracking this takes less than a minute a day", when the project takes up such a substantial amount of his mental real estate. It seems fitting that a man so interested in trackin
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by sandspar 6y ago
He thought democracy degenerates into tyranny - what we'd think of as a dictatorship. Anarchy is a temporary stop on the route. (Democracy - anarchy - people look for leader - tyranny)
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by sandspar 6y ago
This might be a stupid question, but could a vertical farm use systems of mirrors to direct sunlight to the crops? That way the vertical farms can collect sunlight from a wide area. Maybe the mirrors could be positioned in such a way as to
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by sandspar 6y ago
An old magazine article about the actor Matthew McConaughey (maybe in the NYT?) mentioned that he carries a tape recorder in his car and talks to it on long drives. Interestingly enough he's recently written an autobiography, which he
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by sandspar 6y ago
Can anyone tell me why subscribing to print-first institutions like the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and The Economist isn't the best choice? (And hasn't been the best choice for the century plus history of these magazines
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by sandspar 6y ago
Traditional news organizations, especially older ones that began with print, have a long, long way to fall before they're comparable to social media. Social media as a link aggregator, maybe. Social media discussions as being anything
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by sandspar 6y ago
Spectrum diseases like schizophrenia and autism seem ripe for splitting. In particular, I'm holding out hope for improved diagnoses (and treatments) once we learn more about genetics and neuroscience.
925.
by sandspar 6y ago
It seems silly to have 1,000 teachers who range from first best to 1,000th best all teaching roughly the same number of students a year. Why not give the top 10 best teachers all the resources they need then let them teach everyone?
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by sandspar 6y ago
You're right that we don't need to understand something completely before we regulate it. My point was to emphasize how little we know about psychology and how little good a law that addresses our current technology will do in the
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by sandspar 6y ago
Interesting question. Interesting too that we've become so self-confident in our machines and our studies that we think to ask it. Seeking to regulate something like the use of psychology, which we understand so little of, seems like a
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by sandspar 6y ago
Something will stop them. They're not expanding into a vacuum: they're expanding into well-established markets full of billion dollar companies run by people just as driven and talented as they are - not to mention other forces li
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by sandspar 6y ago
Kinda hard to read, too. My eyes jump over it, the sentence stops making sense, and I have to pause and reread.
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by sandspar 6y ago
Thank you so much for sharing this. Game changer.

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