wapapaloobop

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by wapapaloobop 10y ago
With anti-drone drones.
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by wapapaloobop 10y ago
'Failing Light' (with Harold Budd) may be just about the most relaxing music ever. Everything's just growing and existing, perhaps underwater, with nothing ever happening. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5VDD
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by wapapaloobop 10y ago
Children don't make you happier but they do make you develop as a person. I enjoy the company of my children and it saddens me how keen most parents are to offload theirs onto minimum-wage carers (ironically at great expense).
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by wapapaloobop 10y ago
Isn't there are standard just below rigour, though, that is still worth checking for, something like 'no obvious errors within the current paradigm'?
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by wapapaloobop 10y ago
If an activity is illegal than naturally only radicals will express a dissenting opinion on the topic. But this has no bearing on what is right. >could've done a better job at education There is no test that can be made to compare d
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by wapapaloobop 10y ago
That's interesting. Why was the 1938 law introduced?
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by wapapaloobop 10y ago
We have home education and government schools in England. Neither rules out the other. We also have non-religious families who home educate. There are probably secular families in Germany who would like to try too. There simply is no one-
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by wapapaloobop 10y ago
We school-educated people associate learning with authority and it's hard for us to truly grasp that education takes place most efficiently under conditions of freedom. Repealing Hitler's 1938 law against home education would be a
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by wapapaloobop 10y ago
An AGI would have to begin with the same values because without them he couldn't learn anything. Our values draw on the surrounding culture and an individual that grows up outside of any culture (e.g. a feral child) isn't capable
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by wapapaloobop 10y ago
The problem with your scenario is that it equates humans with animals, but the difference that matters is between people (humans, AGIs) and non-people (primitive replicators, animals). We don't commit murder to get at rocks despite the
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by wapapaloobop 10y ago
Any person (biological or artificial) who is capable of mass murder is unlikely to balk at slave owning . If he really wanted human-sized parcels of matter he'd be better off putting people to work in mines. A human can collect many t
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by wapapaloobop 10y ago
Humans need a bunch of atoms (stone, minerals) to survive, and we source those from quarries. This parallel is closer.
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by wapapaloobop 10y ago
The idea that I'll use human bodies if I need a bunch of atoms makes as much sense as the premise of The Matrix i.e. harvesting humans for energy production.
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by wapapaloobop 10y ago
You're correct: I misread the piece. >he claims that they conflate "practice" with "deliberate practice" and therefore didn't debunk him. This seems unfalsifiable since we don't (and presumably he doesn
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by wapapaloobop 10y ago
So, practice is necessary but not sufficient. It cannot compensate for lack of talent. We don't know why some people are talented and some aren't. We can only recognise it in certain fields (e.g. athletics, music). However, and sw
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by wapapaloobop 10y ago
Animated pic gives me formication. Perhaps not inappropriately...
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by wapapaloobop 10y ago
>Personalization – the believe that we are at fault Yes, guilt is the means by which so much bad stuff gets installed in our minds. Ideas that get passed easily from mind to mind regardless of truth content are called memes . I propose
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by wapapaloobop 10y ago
There's now at least a dozen feasible and diverse fusion projects out there. So planners who assume there won't be fusion soon are obliged to explain why they must all fail.
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by wapapaloobop 10y ago
Not overheating food is another healthy eating rule. (Though try making french fries, bacon, pot roast, etc, w/o doing this. Not possible!) Seriously, though, to address why people find it hard to follow such rules one has to look b
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by wapapaloobop 10y ago
One can see differences in specific laws and legal traditions. But it's the outlook (inexplicit conception of freedom) that develops first and which is responsible for further progress. It's not possible to appreciate in depth t
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by wapapaloobop 10y ago
The world and its economies become less and less predictable the faster technology advances and so, for me, it's political considerations that matter. I don't want political integration with continental Europe. We have separate la
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by wapapaloobop 10y ago
http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=41045...
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by wapapaloobop 10y ago
Agreed, but it can't be as simple as merely sitting down. For example, sitting down for meditation is considered healthy, and may in fact be so.
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by wapapaloobop 10y ago
It's becoming increasingly taboo to suggest that depression and other mental disorders are not diseases per se but may arise purely from the use of the mind. This in turns depends to some extent on a person's ideas and not solel
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by wapapaloobop 10y ago
>we become experts at many things, but at the cost of flexibility and speed of learning It's partly because you are an expert at a unique combination of many things that you have great irreplaceable value. This is threatened by ag
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by wapapaloobop 10y ago
I'm assuming that the mental aspect of withdrawal is generic whether due to oxycontin, heroin, alcohol, porn, etc.
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by wapapaloobop 10y ago
I haven't taken OxyContin but withdrawal symptoms and the concept of hell are interesting (well, afterwards at least). It's like the mind has a thought, then checks to see how the body reacts (i.e. with joy or fear) and this in
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by wapapaloobop 10y ago
Children learn to read because it enhances whatever they are most interested in. At present this will usually be video games. Quite apart from the moral aspect, which is usually ignored, this negates the standard argument that "reading
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by wapapaloobop 10y ago
Wow. And after the study they went to the cafeteria and ate food from intentionally smaller plates which tricked their brains into believing they were full -- for about a week. Psychology is so full of lies. Both the content of the 'st
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by wapapaloobop 10y ago
This isn't why we would do it, but only 1 in 10,000 'unemployed' citizens need make a significant contribution to open source or some kind of theoretical discovery to make Basic Income a bargain investment for society as a wh

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