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by smhost 10y ago
The essay you linked seems to be a non-sequitur. Berrett suggests in the original article that performing a difficult task increases activity in the cingulate cortex, which might help to prevent aging. The essay you linked merely says that
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by smhost 10y ago
I'm sorry, can you clarify your point? What is the problem with the idea that difficult tasks (both mental and physical) help to prevent atrophy in a certain part of the brain?
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That's what a dream is, though, isn't it? You decide that something matters to you. Sure, you can change your mind, but then the dream goes away, and it hurts to have your dreams crushed. I think that's really all he's s
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by smhost 10y ago
The fallacy propagated by racists is: genetics = race, therefore "genetic differences account for intelligence" implies "racial differences account for intelligence." Which is obviously not true, but you shouldn't t
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That gives me some really strong existential heebie jeebies. I mean, what then even is our value? Why exist at all, at that point? I don't know about other people, but I get my sense of purpose in believing that we're the captains
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> I would argue that humor can work as an immune system to bad ideas. Okay, but malice and schadenfreude are not requirements for humor. Obnoxious memes and troll baiting are not some kind of Shakespearean fools. They are the lowest form
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> what is impossible to an all-powerful God who created the laws of physics themselves? How about logical impossibilities and contradictions? Can God create copies of himself, or split himself into multiple aspects, such as into the Gree
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> Sitting in a chair is either a) not an act of faith or b) the word faith itself designates nothing at all. It's the old "God of the gaps" argument. "Faith" here means ignorance. The reason we don't know th
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by smhost 10y ago
But isn't that exactly what Chapman is saying? That there is no RIGHT answer, that there is no certainty, that each view has merit but isn't universally true, etc.
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I think it requires stretching the definition of "literally". For example, "seven days" might not necessarily mean "seven human days" but rather it might be some kind of magical God-time unit. An "ark&quot
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by smhost 10y ago
At least one of his friends peddled hard drugs, but I don't know where the drugs came from. And it seemed to be more than mere curiosity. I could sense their desire for that lifestyle, and they were clearly getting social cues from tho
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by smhost 10y ago
I once walked in on my 15-year-old brother and his friends watching what looked like a home video of some guys in wifebeaters apparently standing around doing nothing. I asked them what they were watching, and they said it's a gang vid
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by smhost 10y ago
The standard for adoptability isn't the average person at their peak hours of attention and focus. It's the drunk teenager at 2 in the morning fumbling around in the dark.
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fire with fire
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It's not a matter of comparison or opinion.
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I was a witness for a couple (who I had only met earlier that day) at a Vegas wedding. I would also like to point out that the U.S. is as large as all of Europe combined, and that there are vast cultural differences throughout.
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Ya. They collected data from monkeys 1 and 2, then they injured monkeys 2 and 3. They collected data from monkeys 2 and 3, then they removed the spinal cord from all three.
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> We next exploited cortical signals to decode the temporal structure of extensor and flexor hotspot activation. The spiking activity recorded from the left motor cortex displayed cyclic modulations that were phase-locked with right leg
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As I see it, the government's only job is to protect its citizens, and anything that gets in the way of it doing its job is counterproductive. I agree that a best-informed populace probably must also be the best-protected, but I disagr
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I think it's more tough love than it is vitriol.
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There's a sense in which simplifying laws merely passes the burden to the Executive Branch. It's far easier to prove that a person wore some federal uniform than it is to prove that they pretended to be a federal employee. Just im
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by smhost 10y ago
Not enough pixelation for it to be from Japan
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> The best we can hope for is to hear evidence from both sides, and come to our own conclusion. I don't think the principle of evidence-based decision-making applies to most social situations. For one, there usually is no evidence
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by smhost 10y ago
I've brought neither value judgment nor morality. I merely said that it's legit to think about perspectives as having degrees of correctness, just as it's legit to think about moral philosophies as having degrees of correctne
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by smhost 10y ago
What exactly happens when a service like WhatsApp gets shut down like that? Is there a giant firewall or something?
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> You're not "correcting" someone's interpretation simply by stating a different interpretation But that's how people use the word, that's what politics is. There are no objective truths to social narrative,
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by smhost 10y ago
Speculation is how we judge other people, and our social space doesn't have objective truths. Narratives are all there is, so narratives are what matter most. It's legitimate to correct offending narratives that conflict with your
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by smhost 10y ago
It's like looking into a stranger's face and seeing yourself. "omg she's one of us."
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The framing is different. In one frame she appears to care about the QoL of her employees, in the other she doesn't necessary care about that so much as she cares about efficiency and her personal comfort. http://i.imgur.com
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by smhost 10y ago
And white noise makes me feel calm.

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