It’s nice to have some backing on why not to ask “What the hell is wrong with you?”
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I wonder what he would have spent the money on otherwise...
My rule of the house is ‘if it bothers you, clean it up’ specifically to avoid calling others lazy.
This site is not the only center of rationality. =) http://gretachristina.typepad.com/greta_christinas_weblog/2009/03/argument-from-comfort.html
Wah, but… how can people not see that Tyrant Hope Hubris becomes evil?
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Anyways, if you can stand Piers Anthony it is an OK read.
I’ve only read of one utopia that is not worse than that by design. http://cityofreality.com/
I learned that humans are all very alike.
I learned that natural selection uses up diversity.
I learned some more graceful words and arguments for what I wanted than I had. For instance, previously I explained that I think about religion logically because I used to be Catholic and we do that, now I can say that it is because logic is useful for thinking about everything and tell people my backstory later if they ask.
I learned that emotion and rationality are not enemies. Vulcans we are not.
I learned that normally rational people will take sides in emotional name calling once you blame them. Much like everyone else. (See most any mention of gender.)
Dark Arts done right… people need to get used to being manipulated a little to at least get the feel of it happening, or to learn a bit of it if that doesn’t work. Experience as a net troll does wonders to keep me from getting riled up. But honesty does not have the least collateral damage trolling does.
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Thinking is like taking a bunch of concepts and jamming them together as one might jam together legos until something fits. I usually do this systematically, as I can feel the first thing that fits is not always the best fit, so I want it organized enough to try everything.
Since in general I have to analyze my actions to even see my emotions, I’d like to know how to become more luminous just to increase my shared vocabulary with people.
‘How would I explain it if I wake up and my left arm is replaced with a tentacle?’ and ′ How would I explain it if Godzilla attacks?′ are similar questions. Except Godzilla is more on your mind, because no one makes a movie about how my arm was replaced by a tentacle, but it’s easy to come up with drama about a giant fire snorting lizard.
Timothy Leary’s Intelligence Agents, quoting Aleister Crowley, supposedly.
I though rabbits had to be cuter because more rabbits eat their children than do humans. They never stopped selecting for that.
Is there a facebook group I can spam my friends to join to save the world via Craiglist ads yet?
So you’re defining ‘nice’ as what is inside, while he is defining it as what you do. Personally I like it better that way as lots of people who claim to be nice if only you got to know them are needy jerks.
Most have the same difficulties with letters that have multiple pronunciation that dyslexics have, and the standard method to teach reading is phonetic rather than memorization based. It could as easily be cultural as genetic, English is a strange nest of exceptions.
Oooh, but people can be wrong in so many ways. It’s not a single extra crazy circuit. We’ve got redundancies: in most people, perhaps the ‘main’ circuits are never quite laid down right, but the redundant parts take over. This is so common people don’t agree what the main circuits are; in Japan, dyslexia is more common than, err, what is neurotypical in USA.
Some people over think it, some under think it. Under think it, and you think, “Bah, Walt Disney is wacky to freeze his head!” and never get past that. Overthink it and you may never actually sign up because you leech out all the emotional impetus (this thought process is more adaptive for getting rid of bad memories).
Man, refusing to answer a challenge to authority erks so many people. I bet Robin could write a glib essay on it.
You know, not sensing people’s emotions from their faces is seeming less like a handicap and more like I am immune to illusions every time I hear about the biases most people have. Then I realize I don’t expect people to be feeling something unless they tell me anyways, and that’s potentially just as inaccurate. Then I realize I might not be compensating exactly enough, and worry recursively.