Yes, and most of the people who don't buy crystals are still eager to damage health and wallet by overeating.
Yet authority figures set a standard, whether one is able to meet it or not. If they had been sneaky, then I might sneak around sociopathically for the rest of my life, without a twinge of guilt. This could easily mar…
Yes. And the parents who sneak out to smoke aren't just teaching their kids to smoke: they're teaching them to be sneaky. It would be better to smoke openly and say, 'Please don't follow my example. I regret having…
>I get a sort of "movie in my head" when I'm reading I think this means you're doing it right! In Polanyian terms, your subsidiary awareness is on the particulars of the typography and the words allowing your focal…
We don't know what Socrates said because it wasn't written down. He relied on his followers to improve on his ideas and transmit those improved versions, and perhaps they did. However knowledge does get lost (e.g. how…
Well, to be fair, our Stone Age did take 3 million years to complete.
This misses that it might be a rarified form of egotism to privately reject great prizes such as Nobels, knighthoods, and Oscars in the knowledge that this voluntary refusal will probably become public knowledge, sooner…
>optimality is neither simple nor complex Yes, however, do you think that music should be beautiful? And is beauty easy, or hard, to apprehend? If your answers are 'yes' and 'easy' then I think you'll naturally…
Yes. To me it seems that great players find something new and relatively simple in the music and then find a way to communicate it in performance. Likewise, the best music is simple in its core. Starting with melody. If…
In my case K2 even seemed to prevent customary tea stains from forming.
>Someone has to know what other people ate, know what of what they ate killed them, remember that, pass it on, and be believed for that to work. Yes, this is the tricky part. Per the article, such knowledge is passed on…
For people to learn to cook poisonous plants safely, a lot of other people must have died from food poisoning. So why did they eat bad stuff? Well, if you're hungry enough, you'll eat anything. And people frequently got…
>I found it remarkably sensitive toward transgenderism. Yes, although it does give Reg the last word, who claimed that Loretta was struggling against reality. Regardless, that scene would I'm sure be regarded as too…
If you think Taleb's wrong, explain how!
Yes, for instance Life of Brian itself contains a scene which mocks transgenderism. It seems that we haven't outgrown blasphemy. We merely go from one regime to another regime. And specifying the new blasphemies can…
Most infectious bugs can't survive outside the human body for more than a day or two. Bugs prefer non-porous surfaces. Most books have porous pages, which is good, but of course the covers are non-porous.
Agreed. One suspects the concept of quality time came in with the rising incidence of divorce. Where quality time implies some kind of performance or role, which is stressful, hanging out with one's children is…
Physical work is creative. Wielding the body takes intelligence and is improved incrementally by trial and error. People can and do take pleasure in it. Robots are merely an extension and enhancement of the bodies of…
Parents: hanging out with your children is reasonably-priced and can actually be fun. Non-parents: starting a family is fun and can actually be reasonably-priced.
Perhaps the increased availability of pornography is causing men to masturbate more frequently thereby lowering the average sperm count. Do studies control for this?
https://www.schofieldandsims.co.uk/moredetails/508-c.pdf An imaginary friend took the blame, in her real friend's mind, for stealing dried fruit.
These traditions developed around families with children. The situation now is that divorce and childlessness are common and people are adapting accordingly. Personally, I think it's sad. Long-distance relationships…
Spaced repetition is how learning naturally works. In real life, if something is interesting, or it just keeps cropping up, you'll remember it. The fact that spaced repetition is proving valuable now is because people…
Is there an optimum somewhere between a fully-mortared wall and a drystone wall? i.e. mortar which gives some reinforcement but also allows rain or groundwater to run out?
I presume they will, but will modern greenhousing and 3D farming (under artificial light in factories) help to reduce soil erosion, or not?
Yes, and most of the people who don't buy crystals are still eager to damage health and wallet by overeating.
Yet authority figures set a standard, whether one is able to meet it or not. If they had been sneaky, then I might sneak around sociopathically for the rest of my life, without a twinge of guilt. This could easily mar…
Yes. And the parents who sneak out to smoke aren't just teaching their kids to smoke: they're teaching them to be sneaky. It would be better to smoke openly and say, 'Please don't follow my example. I regret having…
>I get a sort of "movie in my head" when I'm reading I think this means you're doing it right! In Polanyian terms, your subsidiary awareness is on the particulars of the typography and the words allowing your focal…
We don't know what Socrates said because it wasn't written down. He relied on his followers to improve on his ideas and transmit those improved versions, and perhaps they did. However knowledge does get lost (e.g. how…
Well, to be fair, our Stone Age did take 3 million years to complete.
This misses that it might be a rarified form of egotism to privately reject great prizes such as Nobels, knighthoods, and Oscars in the knowledge that this voluntary refusal will probably become public knowledge, sooner…
>optimality is neither simple nor complex Yes, however, do you think that music should be beautiful? And is beauty easy, or hard, to apprehend? If your answers are 'yes' and 'easy' then I think you'll naturally…
Yes. To me it seems that great players find something new and relatively simple in the music and then find a way to communicate it in performance. Likewise, the best music is simple in its core. Starting with melody. If…
In my case K2 even seemed to prevent customary tea stains from forming.
>Someone has to know what other people ate, know what of what they ate killed them, remember that, pass it on, and be believed for that to work. Yes, this is the tricky part. Per the article, such knowledge is passed on…
For people to learn to cook poisonous plants safely, a lot of other people must have died from food poisoning. So why did they eat bad stuff? Well, if you're hungry enough, you'll eat anything. And people frequently got…
>I found it remarkably sensitive toward transgenderism. Yes, although it does give Reg the last word, who claimed that Loretta was struggling against reality. Regardless, that scene would I'm sure be regarded as too…
If you think Taleb's wrong, explain how!
Yes, for instance Life of Brian itself contains a scene which mocks transgenderism. It seems that we haven't outgrown blasphemy. We merely go from one regime to another regime. And specifying the new blasphemies can…
Most infectious bugs can't survive outside the human body for more than a day or two. Bugs prefer non-porous surfaces. Most books have porous pages, which is good, but of course the covers are non-porous.
Agreed. One suspects the concept of quality time came in with the rising incidence of divorce. Where quality time implies some kind of performance or role, which is stressful, hanging out with one's children is…
Physical work is creative. Wielding the body takes intelligence and is improved incrementally by trial and error. People can and do take pleasure in it. Robots are merely an extension and enhancement of the bodies of…
Parents: hanging out with your children is reasonably-priced and can actually be fun. Non-parents: starting a family is fun and can actually be reasonably-priced.
Perhaps the increased availability of pornography is causing men to masturbate more frequently thereby lowering the average sperm count. Do studies control for this?
https://www.schofieldandsims.co.uk/moredetails/508-c.pdf An imaginary friend took the blame, in her real friend's mind, for stealing dried fruit.
These traditions developed around families with children. The situation now is that divorce and childlessness are common and people are adapting accordingly. Personally, I think it's sad. Long-distance relationships…
Spaced repetition is how learning naturally works. In real life, if something is interesting, or it just keeps cropping up, you'll remember it. The fact that spaced repetition is proving valuable now is because people…
Is there an optimum somewhere between a fully-mortared wall and a drystone wall? i.e. mortar which gives some reinforcement but also allows rain or groundwater to run out?
I presume they will, but will modern greenhousing and 3D farming (under artificial light in factories) help to reduce soil erosion, or not?