winchling

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by winchling 8y ago
>Start collecting data and start trying to quantitatively predict things One can't start collecting data until one knows what to measure and why. We normally start with problems. Psychologists have made little progress, as far a
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by winchling 8y ago
Reminds me of the 'too many road signs' problem: https://www.safetysign.com/blog/too-many-traffic-signs/ It's hard to get staff working within a bureacracy to acknowledge this sort of thing, however
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by winchling 8y ago
True!
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by winchling 8y ago
It's an interesting fact that argument by analogy is a fallacy unless one details what precisely is analogous to what, what the exceptions are, etc. And yet... All ideas begin life as analogies, which are gradually refined by detailing
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by winchling 8y ago
John Lawrence Aspden on eating-place pathology: http://johnlawrenceaspden.blogspot.com/2018/09/do-right-thin...
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by winchling 8y ago
>We should not proceed down this road until we know far more about the consequences of what we are doing. In the present climate of pessimism it's worth reminding ourselves that we never know all the consequences of what we&#x27
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by winchling 8y ago
If IQ varies inversely with overall mutational load, intelligence-enhancing edits to the genome exist on the same continuum as fixing things like Tay-Sachs and Huntington's disease. Therefore, yes, they may well be inevitable. Similarl
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by winchling 8y ago
Right! Curiosity could very well be about optimising the structure of one's existing knowledge rather than finding out new things per se. A distinctly non-random process.
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by winchling 8y ago
>Imho, curiosity is something fundamentally different than So what's it all about then? Go on, I'm curious...
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What's the most important conclusion?
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by winchling 8y ago
The practice of consuming content accompanied by a commentary or 'gloss' is an educational practice dating back to the Middle Ages: https://sites.nd.edu/manuscript-studies/2015/09/17/reading-b..
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by winchling 8y ago
Cold comfort to some, but I think there's at least one real advantage that the addict or anyone with an acknowledged mental disorder or personal problem has: addressing this is a path to enormous self-realisation and growth. By compari
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by winchling 8y ago
Listening to, watching and otherwise enjoying The Importance of Being Earnest has increased my understanding and love of the English language no end: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V_7SoF1HLQ It's one of a very sma
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by winchling 8y ago
Interesting!
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Thanks!
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But we already have a situation where smart but nasty people can set up companies. Either they are rent-seekers in which case the harm they can do is limited, or they're creative, in which case their activity benefits society. Even wha
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by winchling 8y ago
>When you approach a problem, you should do it in a way that mirrors the scientific method. I find this fascinating. We've had centuries of great scientists solving difficult problems but we don't really know how people perce
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by winchling 8y ago
He seems also to have been responsible for that tiresome predilection for 'psi power' and parapsychology in science fiction which lasted until at least 1980. But, even so, I've gained a huge amount of pleasure from the select
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by winchling 8y ago
If we all hugged each other more would the world improve or would there be deflation of the stress-relieving value of a single hug?
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Come come, surely it must be the case that either Moriarty was based on George Boole or he wasn't. Tertium non datur!
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by winchling 8y ago
And this man, who presumably wasn't trying to establish a Fourth Reich in Scotland, was found guilty of 'grossly offensive' behaviour: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/pug-nazi-salute
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by winchling 8y ago
This is very good, thanks. Two thoughts: (1) the 'outer world' of one who reflects upon it deeply is going to be richer than the average 'outer world', especially outside the social parts (2) whether and under what condi
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by winchling 8y ago
>All five also showed a preference for their own inner world, yet each had his own peculiarities or talents. The way I understand it, this 'inner world' is really the outer world. Strictly speaking, it's one's repr
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by winchling 8y ago
My theory is that bonds between people arise out of shared suffering/challenges. Thus lifelong friends were often at school together, or in the army, or somewhere else unpleasant, or at least occasionally so. There's reduced scope
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by winchling 8y ago
Is the attention spotlight synchronised with the brain's theta waves?