technopath

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by technopath 10y ago
Decent treatment: https://www.quora.com/Is-crazy-a-slur Personally, crazy the noun is worse than crazy the adjective.
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by technopath 10y ago
> Crazies in General I wonder if, given the social unacceptability of mental illness, it will ever be socially unacceptable to slur mental illness.
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by technopath 10y ago
I've finished IV, V, VI, VII. I think VI and VII are much better not just in terms of graphics but also gameplay, plot, dialog, and characters. That said there are still good things about IV and V, but I wouldn't go back and pla
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by technopath 10y ago
1) Can't is different from unlikely to. 2) Aquifers do.
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by technopath 10y ago
Oh, I was thinking more like trees, biodiversity, and water honestly. Sharks, plankton, etc. Even if oil became scarce, energy doesn't look like an issue in my lifetime, there's always coal and nuclear. But like rainforests are
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by technopath 10y ago
Hmmm, ok, so I think cognitive empathy probably subsumes affective empathy, with safeguards to stop you from getting overwhelmed by it. [edit: Or at least therapists do both of these things.] Good question. I think therapists have an obli
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by technopath 10y ago
My favorite is when other tech people (investors, etc.) stare at you blankly after comments like, "A PhD is like a startup in many ways."
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by technopath 10y ago
We're eating resources faster than we're replacing them. I suppose the alternative is to eat resources at the replacement rate - this is what sustainability is supposed to be about. Or perhaps some new technology will fix it.
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by technopath 10y ago
The empathy you and everyone else are talking about is not what a clinical psychologist / psychotherapist / competent psychiatrist means by empathy. Yours is more akin to what they would call sympathy / pity / compassio