winchling

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by winchling 7y ago
>I love playing easy pieces. Yes. And playing easy pieces well enough that other people want to listen is still hard.
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by winchling 7y ago
The fact that electricity or head trauma (i.e. blunt instruments) have improved creative output in some individuals suggests to me that many of us may be unwittingly inhibiting our creativity. If so, how and why?
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by winchling 7y ago
The cold, hard truth I came to realise about punishment is that it's inevitable. Even parents who 'don't punish' actually do punish: they withdraw emotionally. But the corollary of this is that the closer and happier the
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by winchling 7y ago
>Sound [...] a single, subtle element of the human experience A desirable feature of sci-fi futures such as Hitchhikers or Star Trek is that computers and handheld devices respond instantaneously and with a perfectly synchronised a
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by winchling 7y ago
How long does it take children to learn to catch?
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by winchling 7y ago
We're learning creatures. But the knowledge we gain can't be predicted in advance. So if I'm aiming for a mental state I'm not going to know in advance all the features of that state. If I could, it would have to be an u
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by winchling 7y ago
Nah, learning where a ball will land takes years of training too.
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by winchling 7y ago
Yeah but there's more to mental states than how they make us feel . They have content and meaning. Which may affect subsequent and contingent feelings, for example. >Our outdated brains are built to handle the realities of ancient
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by winchling 7y ago
>Sheltering your kids too much will make them fragile and unable to cope with actual adversity as adults. One could argue that adults from the third world are saner/happier than adults from the first world, despite poorer material
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by winchling 7y ago
I'm sure that many people have learnt to deal with bullies that way. Fair enough, and everyone should make the best of whatever environment he finds himself in. But it would be a mistake to think, as people often do, that one's ow
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by winchling 7y ago
But again, what about the people who become bullies and brutes as a result? The way we learn to get along is through a combination of shared challenges and by trying to emulate people we admire. Not being locked up with Bane seven hours
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by winchling 7y ago
Yes, we don't really know what a good social environment for children looks like. But it does seem obvious that being forced to associate with brutes is unpleasant, demoralising and inconducive to academic learning. By the same token w
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by winchling 7y ago
It's also worth pointing out that the social environment within most schools is far from ideal.
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by winchling 7y ago
>The researchers then measured participants’ self-distance during their recollection of their past experiences How exactly did they perform this measurement?
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by winchling 7y ago
How does its lifetime compare with ordinary wood? Does it rot easily?
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by winchling 7y ago
Haven't tried the salt gun yet, but some of the most effective/enjoyable methods I know are: (1) draw the curtains and leave a door open, (2) detergent spray to immobilise then dispose of with paper towel, (3) cling flim/sara
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by winchling 7y ago
I'm fascinated that tortoises are in fact reptilian since I'd previously thought that reptiles were a strictly meat-eating class. Also that an ancient battle formation was named after them.
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by winchling 7y ago
What about taking it with recovery periods e.g. not at the weekends, or on alternate months? What would that do to the risk/benefit?
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by winchling 7y ago
Agreed. Create audio samples of all relevant phonemes and listen to them 10x per day for a week or two. That should be enough to discriminate them -- or I'll eat my hat. 'Course it would then take further training to be actually a
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by winchling 7y ago
>idling truck on the street for construction? Unsafe range Or for ice cream sales -- next to a children's play area.
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by winchling 7y ago
>mistaking measuring for knowing Precisely. Another bugbear is questions of the type 'On a scale of 1-10, how convinced are you that measuring is a form of knowing?' with response options 'Not convinced', 'Some
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by winchling 7y ago
What's the ideal size of a polis? Too small: there's no privacy. Too large: also no privacy. In the first case, for example a roving band of stone-agers, say N = 30 with all males related and everybody knowing the leader. Which is
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by winchling 7y ago
It's also used as an unofficial form of punishment.
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by winchling 8y ago
Yes, it can be. But it can also be more complicated than that. Reducing the effects of alcohol to its direct impact on health is just that: reductionist. Then drawing moral conclusions from it, as many readers of such reports do, is a fal
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by winchling 8y ago
>I am a total believer in political correctness as a general courtesy to people What about in private, among a group of friends? Should the degree of correctness be uniform or proportional to the size of the audience? It seems to me th
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by winchling 8y ago
>I don't know how we got here, it's a bit scary. I think we got here because of telecommunications and the internet. The world is joining up and a nascent collective mind is emerging. Like the individual mind it has a set of
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by winchling 8y ago
>The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. http://tao-in-you.com/lao-tzu-tao-te-ching-chapter-1/ A lot of people say that fantasy fiction has helped them learn morality. A modern form of parables?
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by winchling 8y ago
My understanding is that the major carcinogen from drinking is acetylaldehyde, a metabolic product of alcohol consumption, not alcohol itself. Funnily enough the body also gets acetylaldehyde from cigarette smoke. A way of reducing build-up
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by winchling 8y ago
We don't really 'see' things. Rather our eyes are just one of the means by which we correct our guesses about what's out there.
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by winchling 8y ago
Yet it may turn out that performing regular maintenance on the human body is the cheapest way to keep it healthy.

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