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by truculation 9y ago
I unashamedly think that progress in many fields has occurred, is a good thing, and that we should expect more of it! However we don't get there by trying to change things, per se. (Only people who think they already have the answers
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by truculation 9y ago
Fascinating. Instead of banning money or fixing prices (did they try that in Russia?) we retain free markets but now with a new layer of government intervention. Not intervention by social spending or regulation but by buying and selling ac
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by truculation 9y ago
Has the solution been found? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKeQgjJYq9s
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by truculation 9y ago
Regardless of the merits or demerits of this particular scheme, I admire the spirit. With a fraction of such confidence we could revive the Neanderthals, build an asteroid defence system, clean up the oceans, on and on. Instead we're n
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by truculation 9y ago
Cooking helped us to fuel our large brains. May we turn it around and ask: for a given diet and brain size, is the adaptive value of curiosity/creativity to save on calories? Not just by improving our plans, tools and behaviours but by
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by truculation 9y ago
>eating on a couch is 100% pleasure It's not that simple. For example, humans can indulge and feel guilty at the same time. We're complicated beasts.
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by truculation 9y ago
Sigh. I want every large marine vessel to have one of these installed: https://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/products/compact-fusion.ht... Well, OK, not precisely one of these because it doesn't work yet. But som
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by truculation 9y ago
Yes it could well be. And I for one don't set much store by 'experts', especially where smoke is concerned: https://www.rawstory.com/2016/05/doctors-used-to-literally-b...
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by truculation 9y ago
Reality is not evident from appearances! Conversely, we found the appendix ages ago; it looked like an organ but it didn't seem to be doing anything.
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by truculation 9y ago
>By comparison, a laser shot from a fiber-laser weapon would cost only $1 in diesel fuel Ugh, what a dirty power source for a shiny ray gun! I hope diesel will be phased out soon.
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by truculation 9y ago
The way I see it is that my identity is a set of fallible memories which are stored in my brain. If I write some of those memories down in a notebook, journal or diary, have I extended my mind? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't
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by truculation 9y ago
The way I see it either (1) I can will to change my diet and exercise. In which case my will is free, OR (2) I can't will it. In which case, given that some people have successfully made the change, factors other than diet and exer
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by truculation 9y ago
So true. Nowadays many of us believe both that we have no free will and that losing weight is just a matter of diet and exercise.
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by truculation 9y ago
I found some videos; here's one with tips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLZ8xhWzDqw
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by truculation 9y ago
Maybe some kids get like that because they weren't helped in the first place. Regardless, we'd try moving on to something better that he prefers . My initial ideas are horror movies, FPS games, martial arts.
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by truculation 9y ago
A simple way to help any kid: find out what he enjoys the most and help him to do more of it. Rinse. Repeat. No compulsion. No testing.
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by truculation 9y ago
No no. In the dark days people believed various things were true because authorities said so - authorities such as the Church, Plato, Aristotle, whoever. People confused truth with source and also believed that some ideas were certain or
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by truculation 9y ago
>what constitutes "enlightenment values" I think Pinker defines these as science, reason and humanism. Couldn't agree with you more about the importance of criticism. Perhaps the most important feature of the enlightenme
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by truculation 9y ago
Tension, yes. The stakes have been raised but there's no going back. We need increasing knowledge, technology and wealth to confront not only the problems of today but problems we don't even know about yet. Any attempt to reverse
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by truculation 9y ago
I'd rather not try -- there's scientific controversy and the explanations on both sides (that I've seen) are low quality. So people are reduced to 'weighing evidence', which is irrational. Part of the problem of cou
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by truculation 9y ago
Lead, mercury, fluoride. Other cumulative neurotoxins. It seems obvious to me that we should work to eliminate anything which damages our brains, whether or not we can test yet for effects.
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by truculation 9y ago
>Nobody dies in Wodehouse novels or stories. In his fiction there are no wars, economic depression, sex below the neck, little Sturm and even less Drang, with only satisfyingly happy endings awaiting at the close. Yes. By keeping the w
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by truculation 9y ago
Is there any benefit to taking a deep breath and holding it for a while before commencing the diaphragmatic breathing?
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by truculation 9y ago
There's probably less than half a drop of oil in the tube and most of that is spat out. So as a poison, yes, no effect. But as a hormone , it depends. I don't know.
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by truculation 9y ago
Fine as long as you realise that this is taking a philosophical position. The grain of truth is that most published philosophy is bunk.
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by truculation 9y ago
My guess is that absorption via the mouth (and via saliva by swallowing after brushing) is going to be higher than absorption via the skin. Wrong?
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by truculation 9y ago
Drat, my favourite toothpaste contains tea tree oil.
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by truculation 9y ago
My guess is a psychopath is somebody has gone through mental anguish in youth and has overcome it with the result that he can't be shamed by others any more than a hardened soldier can be frightened of a wasp. That mental anguish migh
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by truculation 9y ago
Not in cases where the deficits caused by the tweak are compensated for by modern culture. For example, it could be that natural selection made learning hard for adult humans in order to preserve scant knowledge in prehistorical times. But
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by truculation 9y ago
An interesting thing about sugar: though a key part of certain delicious recipes (e.g. cake, ice cream) a cup full of pure granulated sugar does not appeal.

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