If my family history is any indication, I’ll probably die from cancer at some point. In that case, I’d love to sign up for such an experiment.
Sabiola
Karma: 1,352
“Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul. If either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.”
—The Prophet by Khalil Ghibran
I stopped drinking ~9 years ago. It’s nice to think I’m not benefiting only myself, but society as well! BTW, if anyone else wants to quit, Allen Carr’s Easy Way to Control Alcohol really did make it easy!
I was surprised reading the title, because usually people don’t seem very happy to me at all. But I was thinking of when I see them in the shopping center or the train station...
In the Netherlands where I live, people mostly think AC at home is too expensive for that one week a year when we’d use it.
I think that moral realism is true, but species-specific. Morality is basically what being a social species feels like from the inside. To be able to live together, group members need to behave morally towards each other; if too many don’t, their society falls apart. But our human morality is different from what it would be if we were more like e.g. lions or naked mole rats. If we create an AGI, it will be its own species. Will it be a social species, and will it see us as their in-group?
phenomena
typo: should be phenomenon
Those side effects don’t seem so bad. I’m not planning to put it in my ear; I don’t get any irritation or allergic reactions, and the way I’m using it (applying a toothpaste containing it around my implants after brushing my teeth, as prescribed by my dental hygienist) doesn’t seem to discolor my teeth either. 4-chloroaniline and hexamethylenediamine do look scary though...
What is so bad about chlorhexidine?
LOL! I don’t think women’s clothing is less itchy (my husband’s isn’t any itchier than mine), but even if it were, that advantage would be totally negated by most women having to wear a bra.
Yes, exactly. From a bit later in the article:
“The causes of this distrust are complex and diverse. They include psychological traits that predispose some people towards paranoid worldviews; institutional failures, such as telling noble lies to manage public behaviour and dismissing legitimate ideas as conspiracy theories; and feelings—often justified—of exclusion from positions of power and influence.”
See also https://iai.tv/articles/misinformation-is-the-symptom-not-the-disease-daniel-walliams-auid-2690:
”Nevertheless, the model of misinformation as a societal disease often gets things backwards. In many cases, false or misleading information is better viewed as a symptom of societal pathologies such as institutional distrust, political sectarianism, and anti-establishment worldviews. When that is true, censorship and other interventions designed to debunk or prebunk misinformation are unlikely to be very effective and might even exacerbate the problems they aim to address.To begin with, the central intuition driving the modern misinformation panic is that people—specifically other people—are gullible and hence easily infected by bad ideas. This intuition is wrong. A large body of scientific research demonstrates that people possess sophisticated cognitive mechanisms of epistemic vigilance with which they evaluate information.
If anything, these mechanisms make people pig-headed, not credulous, predisposing them to reject information at odds with their pre-existing beliefs. Undervaluing other people’s opinions, they cling to their own perspective on the world and often dismiss the claims advanced by others. Persuasion is therefore extremely difficult and even intense propaganda campaigns and advertising efforts routinely have minimal effects.”
Huh, whatever it was, it appears to have been solved; the link works like it should now. I haven’t changed anything on my end.
Today when I allowed the site in the viruschecker, Firefox said:
>Secure Connection Failed
>An error occurred during a connection to www.secretorum.life. Peer received a valid certificate, but access was denied.
>Error code: SSL_ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED_ALERT
>The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
>Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.and I could only choose Retry, which didn’t work.
After telling the viruschecker to allow www.secretorum.life too, I got the same message, but this time Firefox allowed me to go there anyway, and of course there doesn’t look to be any problem. Maybe there is a wrong setting somewhere...
My viruschecker thinks Life on the Grid: Terra Incognita is dangerous, and says I shouldn’t go there...
62 seconds.
68-year-old woman
take a 45-60 min. walk every day
go to fitness bootcamp 2x/week
Oh yes, of course. I was only talking about the people Stephen mentioned, “who have no care for the truth and will say whatever they think will make them look good in the short term or give them immediate pleasure”.
They’re bullshitters.
“Both in lying and in telling the truth people are guided by their beliefs concerning the way things are. These guide them as they endeavour either to describe the world correctly or to describe it deceitfully. For this reason, telling lies does not tend to unfit a person for telling the truth in the same way that bullshitting tends to. …The bullshitter ignores these demands altogether. He does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.”
—Harry G. Frankfurt, On Bullshit
Nitpick: in the help text, “effect your beliefs” should be “affect your beliefs”.
What use is it to be that attractive? Probably not much. Two of the four most beautiful women I’ve ever seen were at the cash register in a shop. (One of the others, the most beautiful one, was probably a university student (in Louvain, long ago); I’ve no idea about the fourth, but she was in my local shopping center, which isn’t a glamorous place.)