Thank you for reminder, I’m done with procrastinating for today
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My choice of words was incorrect. i meant “more likely” to agree and to succeed at surviving
I’d be very interested in a story that goes into detail about the Cyprus experiment (fill an island with all “alphas”, instead of the usual “alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon” distribution, and see what happens) from Brave New World. Better yet, fill an island with all “rationalists” and see what happens.
2 rationalists must come to agreement if they are truly rational, so they have great chances of survival, whereas “all alphas” will never succeed at dividing their responsibilities and all will end up doing the same thing and die, because they were just born this way, and there are no lower class people to do low-class kind of work, it’s to difficult for them to reprogram
I doubt that the experimenters themselves wrote the article. Someone has to popularize science to mere humans
Thank you, this is awesome!
I don’t like design and usability of the site. I think topics should be somehow divided, because not everyone is interested in soccer or currencies which are the most trivial things to predict
Maybe we should ask children more of these grande questions and gain factual answers instead of taking them as deeper as they are.
Indeed, I suppose their worldview are much clearer and in some ways unbiased than ours. When child is born he sees the world as it is, not through many prisms including our subjective value judgements
I guess you are confusing our universe with parallel worlds. It is very doubtful that there is a planet with the same geography and processes of evolution that completely replicated ours (even giving that evolution on Earth is the only way for life to emerge) so that there are ET humans who named one of their countries USA. So it is obvious that no one up there could share completely same experiences with us
Metamed sounds like a kinda promising startup)
I failed to understand through text why accused people and institutions are necessarily evil
I browsed venal tech-trade publications, and tried and failed to read Less Wrong, which was written as if for aliens
I wonder is this because most humans can’t find joy in the merely real, praising deities and trusting in other supernatural stuff like signs and horoscopes, so disbelieving and living in reality is abnormal?
in a Pickwickian sense everybody does, only their payoffs varies
Em..change in policy I suppose, isn’t all this protest business about it?
Here’s an example of what Doug Hofstadter writes in I Am A Strange Loop. Kurt Goedel discovered that Principia Mathematica by Bertrand Russell does provide reference to itself. So Russell in his book yields the propositions and their proofs, and then Goedel assigns specific numbers to proofs and therefore proves that there is a proof that they are in fact, provable
You forgot that an adjective хуевый means bad, for example instead of saying “I am feeling sick” u say мне хуево, but as parent points it out, the adjective formed from the same root “охуительный” means exactly the contrary - мне охуительно is the russian equivalent of “I am super fine”
As you can see it is quite complicated, but even people who never went to school are the great masters of the skill
I would argue with you, if someday I ever happen to write fanfiction named something like HP and the Methods of Russian Profanity as you put it, there would be prophecy suggesting “and he has the power of which the other does not know”
Yep, doesn’t it sound awesome (or охуительно?) Your masters will be all kinds of rednecks, prisoners and other honorable authorities of the craftsmanship
ahahaahahahaha as a native russian speaker I can say for sure that u can define ANY concept just by slightly transforming words derived from “penis” or “cunt”. There is almost infinite set of variations, each having particular meaning; u have no choice rather than to beleive me or dedicate lifetime into learning Russian filthy language
In same vein, no word for “challenge” that doesn’t also mean “ordeal”. The distinction seems to be also missing from Russian brains, a very peculiar phenomenon that Russian culturologists are always upset about.
to paraphrase, what is the meaning of challenge except “вызов” or “испытание”
I suppose that the problem emerged only because you communicate only with people of your sort and level of awareness, try to go on a trip to some rural village or start conversations with taxists, dishwashers, janitors, cooks, security guards etc.
But quirell knows that Harry possesses the power which kills dementors, so it can’t be related to prophecy from his perspective