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by truculation 9y ago
My guess is that we're simply overstimulating ourselves -- with food, caffeine, alcohol, drugs, sex, etc. In part to support our increased mental activity (work, video games, social media, etc). This would explain weight gain, increase
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Yes, we can only think about problems i.e. ideas/memories which conflict . Once we have improved our explanations of the world sufficiently the conflicts are resolved and old details become unmemorable.
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Tom Scott on timezones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY
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>Children push risk Yes, a healthy boy can't even sit on a chair without tipping, rocking, swivelling, etc. Put peril in parks or promote parkour .
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>One such audit found that a popular climbing structure, open since the early 1980s, presented “a medium to high risk potential for severe to fatal injuries” Ah, they must mean the tree. Popular since 198000000 BCE.
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On the BBC's Desert Island Discs Douglas Adams chose pieces by Bach for no less than three of his eight permitted musical recordings. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0093qxj
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Nah it's more real if you guess first. Perception starts with engagement.
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Or squirt directly into/onto the damp sponge/cloth.
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Presumably better to twist nozzle to jet spray rather than mist spray?
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The evolutionary reason prison exists is because it is cheaper to society and government than riot and vendetta. As society grows more peaceful perhaps the balance will tip in favour of no prisons and they'll be shut down by the powers
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Sure money is real; we can't explain our world without it. Its instantiations/records are physical (and therefore each is 'tangible' in some appropriate sense). e.g. marks on paper, magnetic domains pointing this way r
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Good point. Come to think of it the article perhaps ought to have mentioned their drug-taking (since it may bear on their creativity).
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>The Beatles, one might argue, found the perfect middle ground — familiar enough to want to sing and dance along; dangerous enough to rattle parents. Heh. Whether you think the sexual revolution was good or bad, whether you think the B
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Read (and act out) stuff which you both enjoy. Enjoyment is measured by smiles and laughter. If you're short of material try asking other families and checking the bestseller lists.
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I'm conflicted about socialising. It seems at best shallow and trivial. At worst downright exploitative. It seems like a politician's game, or a gangster's. Yet occasionally I enjoy the warmth of catching up with an old frien
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Another physicist, David Deutsch, also does a good job in The Beginning of Infinity , Chapter 12 'A Physicist's History of Bad Philosophy'. I can't do it justice here but part of the problem is that we don't unders
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The EarthWindMap gives one a sense of how much stronger (in general) the wind is over the sea than it is over the land: https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/ort...
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I'd agree that the terms 'weak' and 'strong' are used too loosely about people especially in moral matters. However in the case of disobeying one's conscience it seems clear: part of the mind wants A and anothe
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People who disobey their conscience are weak!
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Outrage inflation is a thing but there's a limit to how far outrage could take society anyhow. Shaming and outrage are continuous with bullying. They only work on weak people. But it's still open to us to better society by improvi
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Manufacturers can also help by modifying pan lids, handles and some utensils so than water drains off or out of them more easily.
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Yes, it's just that they can't do those things as efficiently as humans can. https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/why-we-show-the-whit...
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>no matter how hard you try, you can't entirely pin down which are core Yeah, there have been lots of guesses as to why humans are smart, haven't there, e.g. bipedalism, opposing thumbs, tool use, large brain, descended laryn
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Yes it might begin like that. Finding the first piece can be hard especially having just heard something awesome performed by a great pianist. Or encountering tepid elementary exercises in an educational-style publication. However, after yo
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Finding the piece you badly want to learn next is important to learning the piano -- just as finding a Roald Dahl or a J.K.Rowling book is important to learning to read. Oh, and Bernhard's posts: https://www.pianostreet.co
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We don't merely wish to experience warmth in our social interactions we desire to get cozy. Having recently invested in dehumidifiers I can state that, roughly speaking, coziness = 0.8 * warmth + 0.2 * dryness
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True. Yet this fairly rigid tradition may also affect real world AGI policies.
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It's interesting how golems, Frankenstein monsters and robots have always turned on their creators, in fiction at least. Another early example: https://jerz.setonhill.edu/theater/rur-rossums-universal-rob... &g
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Our poor posture and use of the body in the West is partly a side-effect of our mental activities , in my opinion. Not merely due to sitting. Rather sitting and performing mental activities whilst partially tranquilised: e.g. playing vid
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Anybody know any stories or resources about autistic motherhood? It strikes me that being a mother with autism could be a challenge, for example when it comes to 'bonding' with the baby. Yet I haven't seen it discussed anywhe

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