winchling

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by winchling 8y ago
The problem here is that problems are connected to problems in other fields, and that solving problems always creates new problems. So a notionally perfect social and political order could only be achieved by halting progress in all other
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by winchling 8y ago
The next time you stroll in he'll ask for your cellphone number. For security purposes. If you don't want to provide it now you'll have to tell him that you'll do so another time.
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by winchling 8y ago
How can anything have an impact if there are no problems? How can there be problems if the arrangements are perfect? How can anything which is perfect be improved? etc.
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by winchling 8y ago
>Utopias and Dystopias are only interesting as thought experiments to imagine what Humans could be possible about They both have the property that progress has ended; that we have ceased learning about reality. An undesirable state to
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by winchling 8y ago
True. The art world, or at least the modern art world, would prefer to be embarrassing us !
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by winchling 8y ago
Proofs from the Book looks superb but does anyone know of another introduction to proofs or compendium of simple proofs suitable for young mathematicians?
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by winchling 8y ago
As philosopher Daniel Dennett puts it: competence comes before comprehension. It's totally possible to do something well, as animals do, without understanding what one is doing. But for comprehension one needs to have something in plac
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by winchling 8y ago
Addendum: coding is Nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your writing is.
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by winchling 8y ago
If you search for 'premenstrual syndrome' you'll find symptoms reported include things like anxiety, irritability and mood swings.
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by winchling 8y ago
Why can't it be both? Isn't bullying just as much a cultural phenomenon as ideas about blood and ickiness? It targets those who less psychologically secure, as menstruators temporarily are, relative to their peers.
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by winchling 8y ago
why are they shaming each other? I guess it's partly because menstruation is typically accompanied by mood swings which render the person concerned more vulnerable to bullying.
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by winchling 8y ago
>2) No, he should not be fired. In fact, the punishment should be very mild (e.g. a warning, attending a tutorial on research ethics). Is attending a tutorial a form of punishment? What about an exam? If yes then what does this imply a
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by winchling 8y ago
>Something to consider - is hitting the child caring for them or venting frustration? A very important consideration. A parent who smacks out of frustration or malice will do harm. Yet a neglectful parent who never smacks a child will
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by winchling 8y ago
Audio version I: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojEq-tTjcc0 (with British accents for Jerrodd, Jerrodine & the Jerrodettes) Audio version II: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XOtx4sa9k4 (read by Leonar
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by winchling 8y ago
Yes, another person's left hand is on the right hand side of the observer. I remember finding this labelling convention confusing as a child. However it does makes sense given that we very readily 'map' our own bodies onto th
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by winchling 8y ago
The link between social tension and literal muscular tension is interesting. Listen to Steven Pinker on Darwin's 'Principle of Antithesis': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPN2717RMLY
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by winchling 8y ago
The future is open. It is not predetermined and thus cannot be predicted – except by accident. The possibilities that lie in the future are infinite. When I say ‘It is our duty to remain optimists’, this includes not only the openness of t
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by winchling 8y ago
Yes, many many choices, and it's impossible to predict what our descendants will want. Perhaps the Earth will be preserved as a monument.
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by winchling 8y ago
Q. Will Earth always be able to support life? A. Probably not [...] Over the next couple of billion years, the increasing amounts of energy Earth will receive from the aging, expanding Sun will warm its atmosphere. Two billion years'
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by winchling 8y ago
Whatever theory you come up with for when intuition is right or wrong, it seems to me that this theory is itself validated (rightly or wrongly) by intuition. That we adopt the ideas that we intuitively prefer is inevitable and not inconsist
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by winchling 8y ago
What age roughly do kids start drinking coffee in the US?
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by winchling 8y ago
OK.
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by winchling 8y ago
Yes to the moral dimension -- obscured by the health issue. It's also about children. Most parents won't allow young kids to drink coffee, for instance. Childhood ought to be a preparation for freedom and addictions have the poten
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by winchling 8y ago
Sure. For the record, I didn't intend to provoke this unpleasantness and please note that my comment wasn't downvoted into oblivion. I'll be more wary in the future...
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by winchling 8y ago
Those are the standard tools of distraction which I employed in earlier years. I actually mean standing quietly still and shifting as much 'internal attention' as possible to the injured toe.
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by winchling 8y ago
THAT praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to excellence are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to be always continued by those, who, being able to add nothing to truth, hope for eminence from
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by winchling 8y ago
I've noticed that when I stub my toe the suffering is considerably reduced if I focus on the pain.
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by winchling 8y ago
>if you find yourself in an unfortunate situation, my main advice is to pay attention and learn as much as you can from it. It seems to me that this is the function of pain. If one could voluntarily embrace this process, would this m
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by winchling 8y ago
>dripping with deadpan sarcasm It seems that sarcasm became prevalent in Soviet Russia because it's a way of expressing opposition without party members being able to use your words to denounce you.
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by winchling 8y ago
>I never said we didn't. Why would anyone collect data without knowing the problem that it will be used for? It bears emphasis because trying to measure stuff without new theories has been a besetting problem in fields such as psy

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