trukterious

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by trukterious 8y ago
It seems to me like gregarious people and loners can be after the same thing. Some people want acceptance and approval from others whereas other people have more of an inner connection to the same source. What is the source? We don't u
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by trukterious 8y ago
>stopping all usage of it only one day a week is maybe 90% as unhealthy. No, a recovery period can make a bigger difference. By the same token the recent advice on alcohol is to avoid it at least 2 days out of 7.
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by trukterious 8y ago
Isn't that assuming that people can't be genuinely unconscious/robotic? Can't we allow them to be so?
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by trukterious 8y ago
>interact with others in a programatic way. Yes, there's something demonic about intentionally rule-based behaviour. >It's this kind of attitude that there is a "right" way to be social that contributes to socia
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by trukterious 8y ago
Yes, most smart people invest their creativity into 'fitting in' better and enacting social memes more faithfully that the norm. Whereas the (rare) creative genius is disagreeable and thus usually ignored.
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by trukterious 8y ago
There are some things that we talk about everyday and even attempt to measure without having an explanation of what they are. For instance, we say a person is 'happy'. Or 'we feel that...' ('feel'? 'we&#x2
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by trukterious 8y ago
>Need magic Yet 'every sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic'. This presumably applies to fictional tech also.
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by trukterious 8y ago
What gets me are the psychic powers -- Sci-Fi's weird obsession with mumbo-jumbo parapsychology such as ESP which ran I think roughly from 1955 to 1980. In the Foundation series it manifests as the mental powers of the Second Foundat
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by trukterious 8y ago
Yes. 'Extreme' refers really to the emotional temperature rather than the content. 'Moderate' views, compromises, etc, don't make much sense and are therefore ultimately boring. This doesn't imply moderation or
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by trukterious 8y ago
My experience is that stopping and paying attention to a stubbed toe makes it more bearable than yelling and hopping around the room.
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by trukterious 8y ago
>Suicide usually has a cultural basis Yes -- hence copycat suicides. But cultural , not genetic. Ideas, not genes.
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by trukterious 8y ago
>We are servants to our genes If so then how do you explain phenomena like suicide and celibacy?
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by trukterious 8y ago
Life is good. But technology is morally neutral: it can be used for good or ill. It's a simple fact that only technology could possibly prevent the next big meteor strike, the next ice age, the next local supernova, etc. If people feel
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by trukterious 8y ago
>stone-age technology can be a solution What about the next big meteor strike?
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by trukterious 8y ago
Snikeris is snickety, but correct. In the long run, only technology and creativity could create better substitutes for burning wood and dung. For making furniture and other structures out of rainforest hardwood. Only technology will avert t
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by trukterious 8y ago
My take on Friends gets more reactionary the older I get. I now see it as very much a part of the Sexual Revolution: the drive to normalise dating and casual sex. On the one hand the friends treat sex as no big deal, plenty of humour, no
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by trukterious 8y ago
They sing while they're playing and/or working at the computer.
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by trukterious 8y ago
Indeed. It's still in the uncanny valley, but then evil is uncanny valley too. Goodness has always been linked in our minds with beauty and grace, including grace of movement.
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by trukterious 8y ago
>I guess you can call that a "meme" if you want, but that doesn't make it "not education". The kind of memes I'm referring to transmit spontaneously, though no doubt intentional cultivation is beneficial i
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by trukterious 8y ago
>As with children, we don’t debug these networks; we educate them Mostly we aren't educating young children. Rather, they are the recipients of memes (e.g. words, waving). These are ways of behaving in context. The transmission
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by trukterious 8y ago
There's a list of some of these plants here: https://learn.allergyandair.com/houseplants-indoor-air-quali... One minor trick I use when walking down the street is to rapidly exhale if I've breathed in a particular
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by trukterious 8y ago
An interesting word I learnt from listening to Daniel Dennett: synanthrope . Such creatures include pigeons, rats, barnswallows, bed bugs. They benefit from living around humans without providing much in the way of return service. There do
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by trukterious 8y ago
Sure we do. Most reading is really a form of search and then we re-read the stuff that seems important. (At least I do.) If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. ― Oscar Wilde
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by trukterious 8y ago
There were exceptions. For instance, David Hume is reputed to have been an affable fellow. But we nearly all of us underestimate how much creativity and energy is expended in trying to be normal (or to appear normal, which is much the sam
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by trukterious 8y ago
Though he used it for comedic purposes, my point is that the author knew of the impulse in other people, over 2000 years ago!
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by trukterious 8y ago
Popper sounds like a dude. We shouldn't confuse this apparent irascibility with dogmatism. He was passionate about his ideas: he published them and read criticism of them. He changed his mind about the testability of evolution, and oth
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by trukterious 8y ago
>I consider it driven by a nasty, Platonic impulse I wouldn't say it's necessarily nasty. There's always been a wish (possibly romantic) for children to be raised in common. e.g. "It takes a village to raise a child
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by trukterious 8y ago
>IMO the parents attitude and nurturing at home is 2x as important Agreed. And since education is inseparable from a child's well-being and general development, it remains the responsibility of parents. They must choose according
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by trukterious 8y ago
Yes. I'm ignorant of intellectual property law, but wouldn't requiring an intent to actually produce the relevant technology prevent some of the abuses of the patent system?
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by trukterious 8y ago
>is it ok if they deliver paper supplies or food On the subject of paper, aren't the papers on my desk going to be blown around as a result of drones delivering compulsory coffee?

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